On Aug 22, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Stefan Bethke wrote:

> Am 22.08.2010 um 10:00 schrieb Stefan Bethke:
> 
>> FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', `"550 " $&{client_addr} "foo" 
>> $&{client_addr} ""')dnl
> 
> The real culprit is the comma.  I believe the problem stems from unquoted use 
> of the arguments in some of the ifelses, where the comma turns the single 
> argument into two.

That makes a lot of sense, especially when combined with the off-list 
suggestions I got to double-quote the error message.

> Tracing the ifelses with -d aceq I see this for the last ifelse in 
> cf/feature/dnsbl.m4:
> 
> m4trace: -1- ifelse(`X"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " rejected', `see 
> http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?"; $&{client_addr}', `Xquarantine', `R<?>$+        
>  $#error $@ quarantine $: _DNSBL_SRV_', `X"550 Mail from " $&{client_addr} " 
> rejected', `
> see http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?"; $&{client_addr}', `Xdiscard', `R<?>$+       
>   
> $#discard $: _DNSBL_SRV_', `R<?>$+              $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: 
> _DNSBL_MSG_'
> ) -> ???
> m4trace: -1- ifelse(...) -> `'
> m4trace: -1- ifelse ...
> 
> 
> I've never managed to really wrap my head around m4 quoting, but the easy fix 
> is to use some other character that has no meaning to m4.

The fact that you knew how to do a trace shows that you're way ahead of me in 
grokking m4. :) I can confirm that replacing the comma with a colon makes the 
problem go away.

Does someone with some m4-fu want to take a stab at producing a fix? The 
problem appears in the 7-arg "ifelse" in the last few lines of 
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/feature/dnsbl.m4, though the source could of course be 
missing quotes earlier in the file.

I'd be happy to test any proposed patches and submit a bug report to Sendmail 
if appropriate. At the very least perhaps the example in the comment of 
/etc/mail/freebsd.mc should be modified to not use a comma.

Thanks!

JN

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