On 1/6/25 11:14, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
After upgrading from 13.3 to 14.2, sending emails from shel lscript, which had worked for about 20 years, stopped working.The code looks like this: mailto="mon mon-sms" subject="DMA check" msg="testing of DMA" echo -e "$msg" | mail -s "$subject" "$mailto"There are 2 space separated recipients, they are defined in /etc/ aliases. And there is a quoted variable "$mailto". It worked for all the years I am using FreeBSD with Sendmail or Postfix. But it stopped on 14.x with DMA.When I run the script it fails with: invalid recipient 'mon mon-sms'I understand DMA does not like the quoted variable "$mailto", when I removed the quotes, then DMA can send message to both recipients, but the problem is we have tens of scripts on tens of machines and they will stop working when we upgrade them from 13.3 to 14.2.Can this behavior be changed somehow to be the same as Sendmail?The second problem is that alias in /etc/aliases cannot point to /dev/ null. It also causes 'invalid recipient' error.Are these known and documented incompatibility between Sendmail and DMA? Kind regards Miroslav Lachman
Sidestepping your final question, your immediate fix is to return to sendmail by restoring your /etc/mail/mailer.conf to use sendmail by changing the dma references back to "/usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail". We were all warned about this in /usr/src/UPDATING entry 20221205, but that was a long time ago, and it bit me only just now when I was updating from 13.4-RELEASE to 13.2-RELEASE and too quickly accepted what etcupdate gave me on /etc/mail/mailer.conf. -- George
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