This remains a problem.
The empirical evidence is that Courier's sendmail is broken. Am I
incorrect? What other diagnostics can I provide?
-ben
On 25 11 2003 at 11:47 am -0500, Ben Kennedy wrote:
>On 07 11 2003 at 11:53 pm -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>>There is no sufficient information to go on. The sender simply reports
that
>>sendmail failed with a non-zero exit status. sendmail normally reports an
>>error message, before terminating with a non-zero exit status. The shell
>>script that invokes sendmail must be modified to capture the error message.
>
>Sam et al.,
>
>I'm following up on this thread I started a couple of weeks ago, with new
>information.
>
>I modified my client's CGI script to dump sendmail's output to a temp
>file, so that I was able to examine it next time it fails. It failed
>this morning. The message that sendmail is putting to stdout is "511
>Headers specify no receipients." (sic).
>
>This does not make sense, because there is most definitely a recipient
>being specified (it is hard-coded in the script). The first few relevant
>lines of the Perl look like this:
>
>open (MAIL,"|$mailer >/tmp/mei-out-$$") || &CgiError ("Problem with
>sendmail: $!");
>print MAIL "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
>print MAIL "Subject: Website Application: $in{firstname} $in{lastname}
>has applied via the web site!\n";
>print MAIL "From: $in{email} ($in{firstname} $in{lastname})\n\n";
>print MAIL <<EOMAIL;
>stuff here... etc.
>
>$mailer is previously declared as courier's sendmail and the other
>variables are from the form. I've changed the email address to protect
>privacy, but as I've indicated, the script does often work (sends the
>mail) without error.
>
>It seems that sendmail is sometimes randomly deciding that there are no
>recipients.
>
>Am I doing something wrong here, or is something in submit.C on crack?
>
>-ben
>
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