Package: esmtp-run Version: 0.5.1-4 Severity: important Justification: non-serious data loss; trivial workaround available
When there is only a default identity in the configuration file (IOW, no identity directive), esmtp-run uses <> as the MAIL FROM. This happens to cause a significant number of mail servers, including murphy and spohr, to silently drop mail (since it looks like a bounce). However, when identities are provided in the configuration file, this bug does not occur; the first identity is used if no -f option is specified. I did not test with a -f option. While I don't expect that esmtp-run intuits the MAIL FROM value (although I would not be upset if it did), at the very least the documentation needs to be much clearer on this behavior. Logging to syslog about the problem would be acceptable as well, as would using the username and hostname (after stripping the port) options in the config file. This particular bug has hampered my mail-sending ability since approximately June 2006, since I did not notice that esmtp-run sent with <>. Thankfully, Loïc Minier pointed this out to me, and I worked around it by setting several identities. If this message gets to the BTS, it worked. Thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers experimental APT policy: (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Versions of packages esmtp-run depends on: ii esmtp 0.5.1-4 User configurable relay-only MTA esmtp-run recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Brian M. Carlson / Brian with Sandals: Houston, Texas, US Before emailing: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/me/contact/email There is no We: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/writings/tinw OpenPGP: RSA v3 2048 560553E7: FE82 7C9F EB21 5436 2F96 25BA 927B 0A51
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