#6 Problem with 0.8.4-0.8.6 upgrade

[Jack Bates]

Taken from help forum:

The long version is I use Slackware 8.1, and only
replaced:
P=/usr/local/bin/batemail,F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9,..
......
A=batemail -Y -a $h -d $u
in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
with the .6 sends all incoming email to the root, and
with the .4 works.
Is something wrong what I'm doing?
PD: Thanks you for your interest/time

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Will test on server today.

[Jack Bates]

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Problem is in the fact that sendmail is sending a null
argument. This argument gets lost when the sub-program is
called. Since we previously used single quotes to delimit all
arguments, this was not a problem. We will probably
institute a fix in the next release. Here is a better sendmail
A line for handling procmail. Also note that procmail can
support the m mailer flag for multiple recipient delivery.

A=batemail -Y -a '$h' -d $u

Here we are just having sendmail place the single quotes in
to ensure the host, if null, goes through the parameters
strings just fine. If you aren't using the host, zap the -a flag
completely.

Jack

[Jack Bates]

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I've attached a diff for the batemail 0.8.6 script that will
change argument handling. If an argument is passed
through as null, it will insert an empty set of single quotes
so that the argument reference isn't lost. This fixes the
common procmail call of -Y -a $h -d $u, which passed
empty hostnames with $h causing mail to be delivered to
root.

Jack

[Jack Bates]

Fix to 0.8.6 base for argument handling