On July 10, 2008 12:21:59 pm Philip Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Vijay Sankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > > I don't think -B8BITMIME works with sendmail on OpenBSD -- at least it > > does not on my 4.3 i386 from CD and on 4.4 -current. > > <sigh> What do you think it does, how did you use it, and how did you > determine that it has no effect? > > I've already noted that the -B option only affects submission and is > ignored when running sendmail as a daemon, making GVG's usage of it > incorrect. If you aren't feeding the sendmail command an email > message on stdin, then the -B option isn't for you. > > > Philip Guenther
Sorry for the noise. I should not have sent that message. What happened was, in a misguided attempt to help, I tried running sendmail with the various options GVG had mentioned. /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf -bd -qp -B8BITMIME -X /$HOME/mail_log and got the error Jul 10 11:54:09 vijay sm-mta[22142]: NOQUEUE:SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory on my desktop. Obviously this had nothing to do with -B8BITMIME and was due to my having renamed /etc/mail/sendmail.cf sometime ago to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.original. But I misunderstood the error because I was in a rush and thought it was due to the flag -B8BITMIME. Thanks very much for taking the time to correct my mistake. Vijay -- Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. ForeTell Technologies Limited 59 Flamingo Avenue, Winnipeg, MB Canada R3J 0X6 Phone: +1 204 885 9535, E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
