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K N O W N B U G S I N S E N D M A I L
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(for 8.6.3)
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The following are bugs or deficiencies in sendmail that I am aware of
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but which have not been fixed in the current release. You probably
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want to get the most up to date version of this from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU
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in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS.
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* "SYSERR: openmailer(local): fd 1 not open" message
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File descriptor 1 (standard output) should not be closed during normal
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processing. This is checked periodically, and sometimes this condition
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is found and this message is produced. Sendmail repairs the problem,
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and the mail is still delivered, but I still don't know why it happens.
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(There was a bug that was fixed in 8.6.beta.13 that might be related,
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but I think this bug still exists.)
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* Null bytes are not handled properly.
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Sendmail should handle full binary data. As it stands, it handles
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any value from 0x01-0xFF in the body and 0x01-0x80 and 0xA0-0xFF in
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the header. Notably missing is 0x00, which would require a major
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restructuring of the code -- for example, almost no C library support
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could be used to handle strings.
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* Route-addrs missing angle brackets.
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There are cases where route-addrs do not get angle brackets around them,
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such as in the "-r" flag on mailers or in the From_ line created when
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mailing to files.
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* Duplicate error messages.
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Sometimes identical, duplicate error messages can be generated. As
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near as I can tell, this is rare and relatively innocuous.
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* No "exposed users" in "nullrelay" configuration.
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The "nullrelay" configuration hides all addresses behind the mail
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hub name. Some sites might prefer to expose some names such as
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root. This information is always available in Received: lines.
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* If you EXPN a list or user that has a program mailer, the output of
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EXPN will include ``@local.host.name''. You can't actually mail to
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this address. It's not clear what the right behaviour is in this
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circumstance.
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(Version 8.8, last updated 10/24/93)
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