Re: [AMaViS-user] Sendmail problem...

[Rainer L. <li...@su...>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Audouy Jérôme wrote:

> I have a problem with the /var/qmail/bin/sendmail program
> i try to send a mail via a script (AMaViS) but the command line doesn't work :
> 
> $cat <<EOF | /usr/lib/sendmail -i -t -fs...@ex... rec...@ex...
> From: se...@ex...
> To: rec...@ex...
> Subject: test
> my test text.
> 
Well, using -t and -f together does not make sense imho. Here's a quote of
the man-page from sendmail
       -t     Extract  recipients  from  message  headers.   This
              requires  that  no  recipients  be specified on the
              command line.           

The following small script (tested with qmail, of course) worked for me.
#!/bin/sh
cat <<EOF| /usr/sbin/sendmail -i -t
From: rainer@localhost
To: test@localhost
Subject: test

my test text.
EOF                          

That's basically just the same way we use to generate notification
messages in AMaViS :)

Anyway, I would use AMaViS-Perl instead of AMaViS with qmail :)
(Note to all SuSE Linux users: /usr/bin/suidperl is for security reasons
not setuid on SuSE Linux systems as it's IIRC not on FreeBSD systems,
too. But to get AMaViS-Perl to work with qmail it has to be setuid) 

HTH

best regards,
Rainer Link

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Developer of A Mail Virus Scanner (AMaViS): http://amavis.org/
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