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3 | K N O W N B U G S I N S E N D M A I L | |
57bc20ba | 4 | (for 8.6.9) |
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7 | The following are bugs or deficiencies in sendmail that I am aware of | |
8 | but which have not been fixed in the current release. You probably | |
9 | want to get the most up to date version of this from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU | |
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10 | in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS. For descriptions of bugs that have been |
11 | fixed, see the file RELEASE_NOTES (in the root directory of the sendmail | |
12 | distribution). | |
0ad2abd3 | 13 | |
75ef1a39 | 14 | This list is not guaranteed to be complete. |
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16 | |
17 | * Null bytes are not handled properly. | |
18 | ||
19 | Sendmail should handle full binary data. As it stands, it handles | |
20 | any value from 0x01-0xFF in the body and 0x01-0x80 and 0xA0-0xFF in | |
21 | the header. Notably missing is 0x00, which would require a major | |
22 | restructuring of the code -- for example, almost no C library support | |
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23 | could be used to handle strings. Fixed (for the message body only) |
24 | in 8.7. | |
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26 | * Duplicate error messages. |
27 | ||
28 | Sometimes identical, duplicate error messages can be generated. As | |
29 | near as I can tell, this is rare and relatively innocuous. | |
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31 | * No "exposed users" in "nullrelay" configuration. |
32 | ||
33 | The "nullrelay" configuration hides all addresses behind the mail | |
34 | hub name. Some sites might prefer to expose some names such as | |
35 | root. This information is always available in Received: lines. | |
36 | ||
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37 | * $c (hop count) macro improperly set. |
38 | ||
39 | The $c macro is supposed to contain the current hop count, for use | |
40 | when calling a mailer. This macro is initialized too early, and | |
41 | is always zero (or the value of the -c command line flag, if any). | |
42 | This macro will probably be removed entirely in a future release; | |
43 | I don't believe there are any mailers left that require it. | |
44 | ||
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45 | * If you EXPN a list or user that has a program mailer, the output of |
46 | EXPN will include ``@local.host.name''. You can't actually mail to | |
47 | this address. It's not clear what the right behaviour is in this | |
48 | circumstance. | |
49 | ||
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50 | * REDIRECT aliases don't work with `n' option. |
51 | ||
52 | If you have option `n' set when you use newaliases and have | |
53 | REDIRECT addresses in your aliases file, you'll get the error | |
54 | messages during the newaliases instead of when email is sent to | |
55 | the address in question. The workaround is to turn off the `n' | |
56 | option. | |
57 | ||
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58 | * MX records that point at non-existent hosts work strangly. |
59 | ||
60 | Consider the DNS records: | |
61 | ||
62 | hostH MX 1 hostA | |
63 | MX 2 hostB | |
64 | hostA A 128.32.8.9 | |
65 | ||
66 | (note that there is no A record for hostB). If hostA is down, | |
67 | an attempt to send to hostH gives "host unknown" -- that is, it | |
68 | reflects out the status on the last host it tries, which in this | |
69 | case is hostB, which is unknown. It probably ought to eliminate | |
70 | hostB early in processing. | |
71 | ||
57bc20ba | 72 | * NAME environment variables with commas and unbalanced quotes break. |
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73 | |
74 | If you define your NAME environment variable to have a comma | |
75 | (e.g., ``Lastname, Firstname''), and you are using the $q definition | |
76 | that uses ``name <address>'' format, sendmail treats the first and | |
77 | last names as two addresses, thus producing a bogus From line. You | |
78 | can work around this by changing the $q definition to use | |
79 | ``address (name)''. | |
80 | ||
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81 | If you have an unbalanced double quote (e.g., ``Firstname"Lastname'') |
82 | the auto-quoting algorithm breaks. | |
83 | ||
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84 | * \231 considered harmful. |
85 | ||
86 | Header addresses that have the \231 character (and possibly others | |
87 | in the range \201 - \237) behave in odd and usually unexpected ways. | |
88 | ||
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89 | * DEC Alphas (OSF/1 1.3) sometimes time out on sending mail. |
90 | ||
91 | I have one report that DEC Alphas acting as SMTP clients sometimes | |
92 | will apparently not see the "250 OK" message in response to the | |
93 | dot that indicates the end of the message. This only happens if | |
94 | the message is run from the queue -- if it gets through on first | |
95 | try, everything is fine. I have been unable to reproduce this | |
96 | problem at Berkeley. | |
97 | ||
98 | * accept() problem on SVR4. | |
99 | ||
100 | Apparently, the sendmail daemon loop (doing accept()s on the network) | |
101 | can get into a wierd state on SVR4; it starts logging ``SYSERR: | |
102 | getrequests: accept: Protocol Error''. The workaround is to kill | |
103 | and restart the sendmail daemon. We don't have an SVR4 system at | |
104 | Berkeley that carries more than token mail load, so I can't validate | |
105 | this. It is likely to be a glitch in the sockets emulation, since | |
106 | "Protocol Error" is not possible error code with Berkeley TCP/IP. | |
107 | ||
108 | I've also had someone report the message ``sendmail: accept: | |
109 | SIOCGPGRP failed errno 22'' on an SVR4 system. This message is | |
110 | not in the sendmail source code, so I assume it is also a bug | |
111 | in the sockets emulation. (Errno 22 is EINVAL "Invalid Argument" | |
112 | on all the systems I have available, including Solaris 2.x.) | |
113 | ||
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114 | * Sending user deletion not done properly in :include: lists. |
115 | ||
116 | If you don't have the "m" (me too) option set, then a person | |
117 | sending to a list that contains themselves should not get a copy | |
118 | of the message. However, if that list points to a :include: file | |
119 | that has one address per line, this will break, and the sender | |
120 | will always get a copy of their own message, just as though the | |
121 | "m" option were set. | |
122 | ||
123 | You can eliminate this by adding commas at the end of each line | |
124 | of the :include: file. | |
125 | ||
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126 | * Excessive mailing list nesting can run out of file descriptors. |
127 | ||
128 | If you have a mailing list that includes lots of other mailing | |
129 | lists, each of which has a separate owner, you can run out of | |
130 | file descriptors. Each mailing list with a separate owner uses | |
131 | one open file descriptor (prior to 8.6.6 it was three open | |
132 | file descriptors per list). This is particularly egregious if | |
133 | you have your connection cache set to be large. | |
134 | ||
fd88f5c5 | 135 | (Version 8.19, last updated 11/13/94) |