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Re: -f"" or -f ""?

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 16:27:28 CDT


Ralf Hildebrandt:
> Today I notieced that my echocharite.de address wasn't working anymore.
>
> I tracked down the error to this line:
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -f"" empfaenger < /dev/null

Equates to: /usr/sbin/sendmail -f empfaenger < /dev/null

> or
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -f "" empfaenger < /dev/null

Equates to: /usr/sbin/sendmail -f NULLSTRING empfaenger < /dev/null

> with the most recent Postfix snapshot, only the second form works, the
> other form gives me an error. Has this changed between Postfix
> versions or did I find a bug?

This has nothing to do with Postfix, and everything with the shell.

        Wietse