> From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 17:20:30 -0600
>
>
> OK, this is bizarre.
>
> I was trying to get our network monitoring software (WhatsUp Gold) to send
> emails on less-critical systems instead of pages. However, it was not able
> to send email through our qmail server, and when I watched the debug out
> put, the program was getting:
>
> 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.
>
>
> So, I thought I'd take a look in the qmail source and see where that was
> coming from - but that *isn't* in the qmail source. For a moment I worried
> that perhaps sendmail was running (shudder), but all occurences of SMTP in
> /etc/inetd.conf are commented out, and ps -aef | grep sendmail doesn't show
> a thing.
>
> Then, I thought that I *must* have screwed up and put in the wrong IP
> address, but I double-checked, and it's hitting the right server. So, my
> questions are:
>
> 1. Where could that be coming from?
> 2. Anybody had WhatsUp Gold work with qmail?
I don't know anything about whatsup gold, but basically it's writing things to
the SMTP port with lines that end with "\n" and those all need to be changed
to "\r\n" to follow the standards.
I had to fix some other software in the same way a while back.
Chris
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