[SM-USERS] default $domain contains EOL (possible bug?)

[<wi...@se...>]

squirrelmail 1.4.3 installed (debian sarge) and works like a
champ.

except... when composing locally-bound email, when we just
want to email someone else on the same system, we could type
out the full address like this

	To: bu...@gu...

but we should be able to be lazy/efficient and just do

	To: bubba

and let the system take care of the local domain. mutt doesn't
have a problem with this, but squirrelmail does:

	Transaction failed
	Server replied: 554 SMTP synchronization error

/var/log/exim4/mainlog shows

	2004-09-06 02:47:04 SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "RCPT TO:<bu...@gu..." H=localhost (192.168.0.9) [127.0.0.1] next input=">\r\n"

which indicates that the domain supplied by default includes a
trailing end-of-line.

the $domain variable is set in /etc/squirrelmail/config.php on
line 28 like so:

	$domain                 = implode('', file('/etc/hostname'));

and sure enough, 1) /etc/hostname contains a string with a
trailing newline, and 2) the file() function of php keeps
newlines intact, according to the php documentation.

perhaps our /etc/hostname file should NOT have a trailing
newline?  (other systems we manage all have a trailing newline
there, and to no apparent ill effect.)

if true, we can fix the file.

if not, then this may be an easily-fixable bug in squirrelmail
(with judicious application of trim()). are we the only ones
having this trouble? should we go away?


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btw: whither bug_report?

we tried activating the bug_report plugin (via the
squirrelmail-configure perl script), but couldn't get it to
show up. according to the soupNazi() function (delightful
name, not that there's anything wrong with that) our browsers
shouldn't be filtered out, but we couldn't find any bug_report
features anywhere using firefox 0.9.1, galeon 1.3.15, iexplore
6.0.2900.2180.yada.yada, links 0.99, etc.

what can we do to become master of our own bug_report domain?