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  • Non-continuation line starts with space, sendmail -bi change?

    From John Dzubera@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 29 14:39:28 2021
    In 8.16.1 and previous, long aliases in /etc/mail/aliases formatted like this:

    blah:user1,user2,user3,
    <tab>user4,user5,user6,
    <tab>user7,user8,user9

    were fine. sendmail -bi didn't complain.

    8.17.1 no longer likes these lines, flags the second line with "Non-continuation line starts with space" and doesn't seem to build
    the aliases properly. Put them all on one long line and it's fine.

    I'm sure I missed something. Anyone kind enough to clue me in?

    Cheers.

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 30 07:47:25 2021
    If you don't use EAI, please try this patch
    (maybe report whether it works to the bug address?)
    For EAI it will be a bit more complicated to fix.

    --- alias.c- Thu Sep 30 07:36:26 2021
    +++ alias.c Thu Sep 30 07:37:08 2021
    @@ -817,10 +817,13 @@
    (void) sm_io_ungetc(af, SM_TIME_DEFAULT, c);
    if (c != ' ' && c != '\t')
    break;
    +#if _FFR_8BITENVADDR
    + syserr("554 5.3.5 Continuation line currently not supported for USE_EAI nor _FFR_EIGHT_BIT_ADDR_OK");
    +#endif

    /* read continuation line */
    if (sm_io_fgets(af, SM_TIME_DEFAULT, p,
    - sizeof(line) - (p-line)) < 0)
    + sizeof(lbuf) - (p-line)) < 0)
    break;
    LineNumber++;



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  • From John Dzubera@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 1 15:18:30 2021
    On Thursday, September 30, 2021 at 1:47:28 AM UTC-6, Claus Aßmann wrote:
    If you don't use EAI, please try this patch
    (maybe report whether it works to the bug address?)
    For EAI it will be a bit more complicated to fix.

    --- alias.c- Thu Sep 30 07:36:26 2021
    +++ alias.c Thu Sep 30 07:37:08 2021
    @@ -817,10 +817,13 @@
    (void) sm_io_ungetc(af, SM_TIME_DEFAULT, c);
    if (c != ' ' && c != '\t')
    break;
    +#if _FFR_8BITENVADDR
    + syserr("554 5.3.5 Continuation line currently not supported for USE_EAI nor _FFR_EIGHT_BIT_ADDR_OK");
    +#endif

    /* read continuation line */
    if (sm_io_fgets(af, SM_TIME_DEFAULT, p,
    - sizeof(line) - (p-line)) < 0)
    + sizeof(lbuf) - (p-line)) < 0)
    break;
    LineNumber++;

    Thank you. This seemed to work. I sent a note to the bug address as well.

    Note: I patched the file by hand. When I tried to use:

    patch < claus.patch

    I got:

    patch: **** malformed patch at line 4: (void) sm_io_ungetc(af, SM_TIME_DEFAULT, c);

    even with the -u option, so I must be missing something, but I'm grateful for the fix.

    Cheers.

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to John Dzubera on Sat Oct 2 05:00:19 2021
    John Dzubera wrote:

    Thank you. This seemed to work. I sent a note to the bug address as well.

    Thanks.

    patch: **** malformed patch at line 4: (void) sm_io_ungetc(af, SM_TIME_DEFAULT, c);

    Seems the patch got a bit mangled "somewhere", sorry.

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