--- Steve Tylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If we know that qmail doesn't change the input
> string:
> - either sendmail does change it,
> - or the Java applet sends different text to each
> MTA...
>
> I don't know that sendmail is going to muck with the
> contents of the email - we are talking data, not
> header
> or address right?-)
>
> But - as Paul Schinder mentioned - you will have to
> find
> out what is being sent to know for sure.
>
> With an 'intelligent' front end like JAVA, the JAVA
> portion may be checking for the return codes of
> various
> SMTP commands - perhaps it sends a sendmail-specific
> command, and expects a sendmail-specific response...
> When qmail doesn't respond in the same way, the JAVA
> says it can't handle the �, and so doesn't send
> it...
>
> I'll wave my hand at testing this - trace the
> connection
> and see what traffic passes between each of the 2
> and
> compare...
>
> If this is the case, you can either fix the JAVA,
> have
> a whack at corrupting the qmail source, or find a
> P166 to
> load Linux on and still use sendmail...
>
> steve
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> mwangu wrote:
> >
> > Steve, thank you for your reply:
> >
> > The accounting system's Java applet which
> communicates
> > to both sendmail and qmail (depending on which
> address
> > you send to) is the same and generates the account
> > data from from a database. This data is then sent
> by
> > e-mail using this applet client to talk to the
> mail
> > server.
> >
> > My reference to sendming to qmail directly was
> that
> > the test 1) was to e-mail address user@qmailhost,
> > whereas in 2) it was to user@sendmailrelay,
> > sendmailrelay would then pass this email on to
> > user@qmailhost.
> >
> > As mentioned before, sendmail appears to handle
> the
> > input from the mail client, but qmail does not.
> >
> > If anyone could give me some pointers as to what I
> > should check in my qmail configuration, to
> eliminate
> > qmail as a suspect, I would appreciate it.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --- Steve Tylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Don't know if it helps or not - I have the �
> > > (Sterling sign) in the email that you sent, and
> > > have 2 qmail relays in front of me.
> > > [If the � sign is not valid above, let me know -
> I
> > > have a netscape client talking to a qmail
> server...]
> > >
> > > So - it seems to me that qmail is not corrupting
> the
> > > sign as a transport.
> > >
> > > That would leave the initial dumping of the
> input
> > > text into the message body as the corrupter.
> > >
> > > When you say "send the message directly to
> qmail"
> > > what do you mean (as opposed to sending it to
> > > sendmail)? I would hazard an educated guess
> that
> > > the mechanism is different,
> > > and the problem is introduced there.
> > >
> > > not a qmail expert, but I like to turn over
> rocks;-)
> > > steve
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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