[PATCH] sendmail: EHLO/HELO should use a domain
Natanael Copa
natanael.copa at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 13:17:22 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 17:02 +0400, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> 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?!
I assume thats postfix way of sanatizing hostnames?
> 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.
I would agree if you wouldn't have called your applet "sendmail".
> > 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 should probably drop gnats anyway. the software aint that great.
>
> 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.
I'd do the opposite. Start with a very simple/dumb sendmail and have
config options for additional features. I.E FEATURE_SENDMAIL_CHARSETS,
FEATURE_SENDMAIL_ATTATCHMENTS
>
> That said, I will try my best.
Thanks! I guess I owe you a beer :)
-nc
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