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Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:50:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: ssmtp 2.38.7-4 reads headers from message body.
- References: <00be01c393c0$869213b0$647ba8c0@neth.hp.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:35:59AM +0200, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> [This is my first posting to this list. I hope the format is OK.]
>
> I am trying to use ssmtp (2.38.7-4) as my 'mailer' in tin, the
> newsreader. tin invokes ssmtp as
>
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp -t < %F
>
> where %F is a file which contains the header (lines), a blank line (only
> \r\n) and body.
>
> I have found that apparently ssmtp keeps reading 'header' lines (like
> From:, etc.) *after* it has read the full header, i.e. it also reads
> 'header' lines from the *body* of the message. For example it will fail
> (on the "From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>" line in the
> *body*) with the below input file.
More input. What means "fail"? What is ssmtp doing with the mail?
Reading too much doesn't sound very desctructive to me.
Corinna
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