On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:06 +0400, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
>         > So your MTA INcorrectly discards that EHLO.
>         no. I think it was my postfix's reject_invalid_hostname option
>         that
>         rejected the email address in the EHLO.
> 
> In either case it is MTA, not BB sendmail client, problem, agreed?

I still think the EHLO should be a valid hostname and not an email
address. I.E there should be no '@' in the EHLO.

>         We should probably not even complain. Need to support MAIL
>         FROM: <> as
>         others said.
> 
> Yes. It should use it verbatim. <off>Let spammers employ BB sendmail
> more actively ;)))</off>

> 
>         > > bash so I changed it to SMTPHOST.
>         > Personally, I would get completely rid of environ here. -H
>         switch is
>         > good,
>         So using a env var was an cheap way to get away from having a
>         config
>         file.
> 
> I see. Makes sense.
> 
>         > and localhost is the sane fallback IMO.
>         If you use busybox sendmail, then I'm pretty sure you dont
>         have a real
>         MTA listening on localhost port 25. (because if you do have
>         postfix
>         running then you use the postfix sendmail and not busybox
>         sendmail)
> 
> Actually when I developed sendmail I used to have XMail on
> localhost :) That is where this default is from. But I would not
> object if we had no default host at all.
> 
> So would you rediff and send the result?

I started look at it, but it looks like sendmail is designed to only do
attatchments and attatchments only. I think I will have to go back to
ssmtp which does what I need: stupidly send plain text emails, not
attatchments.

I don't have time for a busybox sendmail rewrite or fundamental
redesign. Sorry.

-nc


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