A friend of mine has a rather old Linux system with Sendmail 8.7.5/8.7.3.
There were no problems talking to me qmail system until yesterday,
when someone typed in some text via a web-Interface and this should be
delivered to a local mailbox. The message was rejected with "stray newlines".
I could reproduce the behaviour with
echo 'Test^M...' | Mail -s 'test' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This results in the following recordio log:
tcpcontrol: ok 1972 mail.space.net:195.30.0.8:25
xxxxx.jura.uni-mainz.de:134.93.224.NNN::1183
recordio: 1972 > 220 mail.space.net ESMTP?
recordio: 1972 < EHLO xxxxx.jura.uni-mainz.de?
recordio: 1972 > 250-mail.space.net?
recordio: 1972 > 250-PIPELINING?
recordio: 1972 > 250 8BITMIME?
recordio: 1972 < MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
recordio: 1972 > 250 ok?
recordio: 1972 < RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
recordio: 1972 > 250 ok?
recordio: 1972 < DATA?
recordio: 1972 > 354 go ahead?
recordio: 1972 < Received: (from maex@localhost) by xxxxx.jura.uni-mainz.de
(8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA10303 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:16:58 +0200?
recordio: 1972 < Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:16:58 +0200?
recordio: 1972 < From: Maex der Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
recordio: 1972 < Message-Id: <200008+
recordio: 1972 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>?
recordio: 1972 < To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
recordio: 1972 < Subject: Test?
recordio: 1972 < ?
recordio: 1972 < Test?...
recordio: 1972 > 451 Put ,E=\r\n at the end of Mether, Mtcp, or Msmtp in sendmail.cf
if you are using Solaris 2.5 (fixed in 2.5.1). I cannot accept messages with stray
newlines. Many SMTP servers will time out waiting for \r\n.\r\n.?
smtpd: 967587433.542401 1972 > [EOF]
tcpserver: end 1972 status 256
What I don't understand is why qmail chokes because of a stray newline?
I don't see a "\n.\n" in the above example. At best there is a "\r...\n"
Why does qmail think this is a stray newline?
Isn't "\r...\n" a valid sequence in a message body?
If I do this from a more modern sendmail (8.9.3/8.9.3) the above looks like
recordio: 4795 < Test?...?
recordio: 4795 < .?
recordio: 4795 > 250 ok 967588205 qp 4798?
recordio: 4795 < QUIT?
tcpserver: end 4795 status 256
What do I miss (please forgive me if this is obvious and I don't see it!)?
Puzzled,
\Maex
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