[imp] From line creation? (2.2.4)

[Marius Strom]

It is worth noting that "normal" sendmail traffic has no quotes around
the from= line, so it would seem that IMP is passing the fully quoted
string and sendmail chooses not to strip it off.

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:40:30PM -0600, Marius Strom wrote:
> Logs follow:
> 
> Feb  6 14:34:43 megatron sendmail[87205]: f16KYhi87205:
> from="marius@alpha1.net", size=578, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<981491683.3a805fe31e692@webmail.alpha1.net>,
> relay=httpd@localhost
> Feb  6 14:34:43 megatron sendmail[87209]: f16KYhi87205: to="|exec
> /usr/local/bin/procmail", ctladdr=marius@alpha1.net (1580/1580),
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30578, dsn=2.0.0,
> stat=Sent
> 
> I know it's not a procmail issue, as we have "normal" users that are
> seeing this issue as well.  I also have verified that this occured as
> far back as 2.2.1 (I don't go back further, sorry..)
> 
> Let me know if any further information is needed -- Chuck, if you need
> further access wrt pinpointing the problem, I can provide you with
> access to the machine, logs, etc.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:05:39PM +0000, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > Chuck Hagenbuch writes:
> > > Quoting Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>:
> > > 
> > > >  Check the mail logs on 216.88.237.10 and mail.alpha1.net to find out
> > > >  what the real enveloper sender address is. I _think_ it's possible
> > > >  (although I haven't observed this yet) that IMP somehow passes 
> > > >  "marius@alpha1.net" (literally, including the quotes!) to sendmail -f,
> > > >  which then interprets the address as RFC-822 local-part, and tacks on
> > > >  the missing domain. Or something like that.
> > > 
> > > That would be both unfortunate and odd - can anyone else provide any insight 
> > > into this?
> >  
> >  The necessary information, to track this down is in the mail logs.
> > 
> >  I can't really test this, as I don't have a pure sendmail system (all
> >  important mail handling boxes run postfix). But it seems that indeed
> >  sendmail doesn't strip quotes:
> > 
> >  echo hello | /usr/lib/sendmail -f \"sender@dom.ain\" rcpt@dom.ain
> > 
> >  creates a From: header with "sender@dom.ain"@domn.ain. The From_ line
> >  has the quotes stripped, but that because in my case, this mail goes
> >  through a postfix machine (which strips them, as I can verify with the
> >  mail logs). The logs on the sending machine, however, include the quotes
> >  for the envelope sender.
> > 
> >  Case 2: echo hello | /usr/lib/sendmail -f \"sender@dom.ain\" rcpt
> > 
> >  As rcpt is local, the mesage is delivered directly by sendmail on the
> >  local box, and here, the From_ line says "sender@dom.ain", but it's not
> >  qualified with a domain name because it's local delivery.
> > 
> >  Someone should test this with a pure sendmail system. Or the original poster
> >  may provide some logs. Anyway, this may be a local configuration rather
> >  than IMP issue.
> > 
> > 
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> Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
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Marius Strom <marius@marius.org>
Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator
URL: http://www.marius.org/
http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0x55DE53E4
 
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a mini-van full of DLT
tapes traveling down the highway at 65 miles per hour..."
	-Andrew Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"