Public bug reported:
If I submit mail with unqualified addresses directly...
richard@lyonesse:~$ /usr/sbin/exim4 -t
To: root
Subject: test
body
richard@lyonesse:~$
...then the MTA qualifies them correctly:
To: [email protected]
Subject: test
Message-Id: <E1dbPiV-0001g2-Ft@lyonesse>
From: Richard Kettlewell <[email protected]>
However if I submit mail with mail.mailutils...
richard@lyonesse:~$ mail -s test root < /dev/null
mail: Null message body; hope that's ok
richard@lyonesse:~$
...then it makes a bad guess at how to turn them into fully qualified
addresses:
To: <root@lyonesse>
Message-Id: <E1dbPjb-0001h6-St@lyonesse>
From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@lyonesse>
mail thinks it knows how to qualify email addresses, but it's wrong.
Instead, it should leave it to the system MTA, which does know.
richard@lyonesse:~$ cat /etc/mailname
anjou.terraraq.uk
ichard@lyonesse:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/mail /etc/alternatives/mail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 26 23:29 /etc/alternatives/mail ->
/usr/bin/mail.mailutils
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 26 23:29 /usr/bin/mail -> /etc/alternatives/mail
richard@lyonesse:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.04
Release: 17.04
richard@lyonesse:~$ dpkg -l mailutils exim4\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un exim4 <none> <none> (no description available)
ii exim4-base 4.88-5ubuntu amd64 support files for all Exim MTA (v
ii exim4-config 4.88-5ubuntu all configuration for the Exim MTA (v
un exim4-config-2 <none> <none> (no description available)
un exim4-daemon-c <none> <none> (no description available)
ii exim4-daemon-h 4.88-5ubuntu amd64 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extende
un exim4-daemon-l <none> <none> (no description available)
ii exim4-doc-html 4.88-1 all documentation for the Exim MTA (v
un exim4-doc-info <none> <none> (no description available)
un exim4-localsca <none> <none> (no description available)
ii mailutils 1:3.1.1-1 amd64 GNU mailutils utilities for handl
** Affects: mailutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mail.mailutils gets to/from addresses wrong
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