From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2006 - 19:37:53 CDT

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On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:55:33PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:

> > > > I run and compile Postfix on FreeBSD v4.11 gcc v2.95.4
> > >
> > > This happens when you built Postfix with GNU getopt. Perhaps
> > > it's included by some third party library that you built Postfix with.
> > >
> > > This is a returning problem.
> > >
> > > On FreeBSD you MUST use the FreeBSD getopt routine, not the
> > > incompatible GNU version.
> > >
> >
> > I will try to get my enviroment clean....
>
> Good luck finding the intruder.
>
> By the way, this means also getting rid of non-FreeBSD include
> files that define the getopt interface.

One complication is that past problems with GNU getopt have caused
unexpected options to be seen by pipe(8) when pipe(8) is invoked
as:

    pipe [-master options] ... argv=sendmail -f ${sender} -- ${recipient}

The "..." part had no "--" which suppresses the GNU getopt() options
after non-option arguments feature. This caused pipe(8) to see "-f"
and fail. The error that the OP is reporting is different: pipe(8)
does not complain about "-f", but sendmail(1) fails to set "optind"
correctly (does not skip "--"). This looks like a new bug. One that I
don't recall reported before. It may still be GNU getopt(), or it may be
some other getopt() (or even a macro that redefines getopt() as some
other function), or a compiler bug...

The OP should build a stock Postfix sendmail with no MySQL, LDAP, ... or
other optional features, include files, libraries, ... and see if that
helps. Until "sendmail -f him -- him" works correctly, something is still
wrong with the environment. If all else fails upgrade to a more recent
stable FreeBSD with a more recent compiler.

--
        Viktor.

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