[PATCH] sendmail: EHLO/HELO should use a domain

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 13:02:13 UTC 2008


>
> It fixes this error that i currently get from postfix:
> 501 5.5.2 <natanael.copa?gmail.com>: Helo command rejected: Invalid name


Sorry, Natanael, why is the question mark in the middle of the name?!

if there is no attatchement then the input is converted to an
> "attatchment". Makes sense if you really want attatchment support as you
> then can treat all parts equally more or less.


You've got the idea. By treating all parts equally we reduce code size and
improve maintenance-ability.

That would be great. Support for attatchemnt is higly nonstandard and
> should be an configure option.
> ...
> Isn't that a job for the script/program that creates the message in
> first place? sendmails job is to send mails. not compose them, nor edit
> them.


That is why a zillion of loosely coded scripts are needed to just send an
email. I consider attachments support as a good intrinsic feature.

> 2) Plain '.' in message: message body needs to be analyzed and
> > mangled.
> ssmtp solves that by inserting an '.' in front of all lines starting
> with '.'


Not big deal, but the message IS then mangled.
And it is a pain to send cyrillic text in plain. What to do with that if
vanilla sendmail knew nothing beyond ASCII 0-127 chars?

> But why doesn't the remote end correctly process well-packed MIME
> > messages?!
> Because recepient is a stupid program. (gnats)


Can we somehow say them they are gNUTs :^)


I'd like to have a sendmail that just sends mail and don't bother whats
> in there.


Well, I'll make FEATURE_SENDMAIL_BE_DUMB then.

That said, I will try my best.

Regards,
--
Vladimir
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