1 2 3 K N O W N B U G S I N S E N D M A I L 4 (for 8.6) 5 6 7The following are bugs or deficiencies in sendmail that I am aware of 8but which have not been fixed in the current release. You probably 9want to get the most up to date version of this from FTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU 10in /ucb/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS. 11 12* "SYSERR: openmailer(local): fd 1 not open" message 13 14 File descriptor 1 (standard output) should not be closed during normal 15 processing. This is checked periodically, and sometimes this condition 16 is found and this message is produced. Sendmail repairs the problem, 17 and the mail is still delivered, but I still don't know why it happens. 18 (There was a bug that was fixed in 8.6.beta.13 that might be related, 19 but I think this bug still exists.) 20 21* Null bytes are not handled properly. 22 23 Sendmail should handle full binary data. As it stands, it handles 24 any value from 0x01-0xFF in the body and 0x01-0x80 and 0xA0-0xFF in 25 the header. Notably missing is 0x00, which would require a major 26 restructuring of the code -- for example, almost no C library support 27 could be used to handle strings. 28 29* Route-addrs missing angle brackets. 30 31 There are cases where route-addrs do not get angle brackets around them, 32 such as in the "-r" flag on mailers or in the From_ line created when 33 mailing to files. 34 35* Duplicate error messages. 36 37 Sometimes identical, duplicate error messages can be generated. As 38 near as I can tell, this is rare and relatively innocuous. 39 40* If you EXPN a list or user that has a program mailer, the output of 41 EXPN will include ``@local.host.name''. You can't actually mail to 42 this address. It's not clear what the right behaviour is in this 43 circumstance. 44 45* You can't use a ``mailer:relay.host'' for UUCP_RELAY or the relay 46 host in the SITECONFIG macro (the second argument) in the 47 configurations. If the goal is to use ESMTP instead of SMTP, 48 define `confRELAY_MAILER' to `esmtp' and use no mailer name. Note 49 that the default mailer used for relays (`relay') does use ESMTP 50 by default (it didn't in prior releases). This problem does not 51 occur for other relays (BITNET or CSNET) or mailertable entries. 52 53(Version 8.7, last updated 10/08/93) 54