On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:20:30PM -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> OK, this is bizarre.
>
> I was trying to get our network monitoring software (WhatsUp Gold) to send
> emails on less-critical systems instead of pages. However, it was not able
> to send email through our qmail server, and when I watched the debug out
> put, the program was getting:
>
> 451 Put ,E=\r\n at the end of Mether, Mtcp, or Msmtp in sendmail.cf if you
> are using Solaris 2.5 (fixed in 2.5.1). I cannot accept messages with stray
> newlines. Many SMTP servers will time out waiting for \r\n.\r\n.
>
> So, I thought I'd take a look in the qmail source and see where that was
> coming from - but that *isn't* in the qmail source. For a moment I worried
> that perhaps sendmail was running (shudder), but all occurences of SMTP in
> /etc/inetd.conf are commented out, and ps -aef | grep sendmail doesn't show
> a thing.
>
> Then, I thought that I *must* have screwed up and put in the wrong IP
> address, but I double-checked, and it's hitting the right server. So, my
> questions are:
>
> 1. Where could that be coming from?
not qmail, unless someone edited the source. qmail replies with the
following:
451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html.
There is a workaround called "fixcr" that will enable qmail to accept email
with bare LF's in it, I believe that procedure is outlined in the FAQ.
--Adam
