Paul,
Thank you for your response.
Please do not take offence at my conclusion that qmail
is partly to blame. While my familiarity with MTAs
stops at sendmail, I am only just getting to grips
with the workings of qmail (I have been looking at
this issue for the last 4 days, and yes, I have
trawled through a mass of documentation.
I can appreciate what you're saying. Now, is there any
way for me to get qmail to emulate this particular
feature of sendmailfor the next 2 months while I work
on ripping out this insidioud accounting application?
I realise that what I have just asked borders on
heresy, but I am desparate to get this resolved as I
do have more pressing jobs to get on with which will
allow me to get rid of sendmail completely as it has
proved to be an insecure MTA time and time again.
qmail as I understand it could close this hole, but
before I do that I need to implement our new
accounting system, and before I do that I have to run
the old one without the sendmail relay host which has
now been poached, .... and so on, I'm sure you get the
picture.
Thank you.
--- Paul Schinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> At 5:38 AM -0700 6/15/00, mwangu wrote:
> >I must be doing something wrong then.
>
> No, you're expecting the wrong thing. Here's what I
> think is
> happening, although it's been years since I allowed
> sendmail on any
> machine that I control. As I recall, sendmail thinks
> it's just fine
> to muck around with the contents of email. (My
> first order of
> business after booting a new OS is to remove
> sendmail immediately.)
>
> >
> >1) When I send the same message directly to qmail.
> I
> >get no Sterling signs.
>
> qmail leaves the data untouched, and the software
> you're using to
> view it doesn't know how to display the 8-bit
> character for pound
> sign. (Use a Mac, for example, and you might run
> into the difference
> between ISO and MacRoman, although your � below
> displayed properly on
> my iBook.)
>
> >
> >2) When I send exactly the same message to a
> sendmail
> >relay, which then sends to the qmail address in 1),
> I
> >get Sterling signs.
>
> sendmail "helpfully" changes the data, and the MIME
> encoding that
> sendmail replaces the pound sign with is correctly
> interpreted by the
> software you're using.
>
> Use the proper tool to examine the data before
> making accusations.
> (It's amazing how many people are so quick to accuse
> qmail of doing
> things that it's not doing.) Use od(1) to examine
> the data before
> and after you send it through the MTA. I think
> you'll find that
> qmail leaves it alone, while sendmail changes it.
> qmail does *not*
> change the content of email.
>
> >
> >If my statment below was incorrect, then please
> >explain to me how this is.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
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