Re: XCmail: A minor Bug?

[Jürgen Schmitz]

---Reply to mail from David Pilgram about XCmail: A minor Bug?
> Dear Jurgen,
> 
> Yes, today's one did.  I did not know that about Sendmail, in as much as I
> thought it stopped doing a "From" check after the main text had arrived. 
> So does that mean that an encoded attachement, which might just have the 
> letters F r o m appearing in it randomly in that order will have trouble
> with Sendmail?
> 

The point is the mbox format with uses "From" as a seperator for different
mail. Encoded attachments don't have this problems: the are encoded so
there is no plain ascii "from" in it.

However, this feature was added in xcmail 0.xyz because there were some
problems without it. If you send your mails with SMTP it is required to do
this, if you send them by calling the local sendmail program
(/usr/lib/sendmail) this is normally done by sendmail. However, XCmail
doesn't care which one is used so a "From" check is done in both cases.


Jürgen