Ben Kennedy writes:

This remains a problem.

The empirical evidence is that Courier's sendmail is broken.  Am I
incorrect?  What other diagnostics can I provide?

What you can do is instead of piping the message directly to sendmail, save it into a temporary file first. Then, if the message is rejected, you have its exact copy in a file, and can submit it via the command line to see if you have a reproducible test case.


-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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