On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:02:49PM +0100, Willi Mann wrote: > Package: dma > Version: 0.0.2010.06.17-11 > Severity: normal > > (I'm the maintainer of the Debian package logwatch.) > > In http://bugs.debian.org/642398 a user reported that dma fails to accept what > it gets from logwatch. It turned out that logwatch's output does not end with > a > newline, rather it ends with newline followed by a space. > > This behaviour of logwatch is at least accepted by /usr/sbin/sendmail as > implemented in courier and postfix (I use them), and probably most other > mailers in Debian (I haven't received any other bug report concerning this > issue). > > Based on the principle of "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in > what you accept" I've fixed the problem in logwatch, but I think that this > problem should also be fixed in dma.
You are absolutely correct; thanks for reporting this! This is actually fixed in a newer upstream version of dma; I'll decide in the next day or so whether to update to a newer upstream or just import this particular fix. Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence contains exactly threee erors.
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