Dear all,

I have two remarks concerning the sendmail applet:


1st: anti-spam timeout
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I had to add the following line to mailutils/sendmail.c in order to make it 
work with my company server:

(line 149)    sleep(5); // some servers have a 5s timeout before answering (as 
an anti-spam measure)

I know I won't get the good code award for this, as obviously it should be 
coded with a timeout: sendmail shouldn't sleep if the server responds faster. 
Is there someone who knows where to find the timeout code that could do this, 
or tell me where to look?


2nd: "-f sender" option
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the docs state: "-f sender       Sender (required)"
This is correct: sendmail won't let you send the mail without it.

But I've noticed that it's not used!
I send mails using:

cat header.txt /mnt/jffs2/report-20120404-153857174.csv | busybox sendmail -f 
[email protected] -S mailserver.abm.be

where header.txt contains my from: / to: / subject: lines.
I see that the address in the "from:" line in header.txt is used instead of the 
-f option. And when I leave out the from: line, my outlook client receives an 
email with an empty "from:" field...

Any suggestions?


Regards,
Brecht

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