On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 12:20:11 -0400, David Levine writes:
>> ---sysconfdir='$${prefix}/etc' \
>I assume that 3 dashes there is a typo.indeed, cut and paste issue. >> --with-mts=sendmail/pipe \ > >Is that the best choice for a default configuration? it's been that way since 2003 when somebody complained about smtp as default (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=152729); personally i prefer pipe for submission and nobody asked for a different default yet, hence... >Re. sendmail/pipe, are these comments in post.c still valid? > > /* This won't work with MTS_SENDMAIL_PIPE. */ > verify_all_addresses (1, eai, envelope, oauth_flag, auth_svc); as far as i can tell yes, because verify_all_addresses uses do_an_address which uses sm_wadr which talks smtp. > /* It would be nice to have support to call > verify_all_addresses with MTS_SENDMAIL_PIPE, but > that might require running sendmail as root. Note > that spost didn't verify addresses. */ this idea would also not work for postfix: its sendmail emulation wrapper does have a '-bv' option, but one which never responds to the invoking process (like real sendmail does); instead postfix sends an email report back after verifying each recipient address. personally i think spending any further effort on verifying addresses for deliverability on the sending side is wasted because of how little verification/guarantee it provides (see bugs section in man whom). regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 2FCCF66BB963BD5F + http://snafu.priv.at/ And God spoke: There shall be packets. And there were packets, and these packets were good, mostly. -- G.S. Granados
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