50159 - Postfix's sendmail analogon chokes on "-ODeliveryMode=deferred" (Fix included :-)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P3)

Description

[Eric Maryniak]

In file 'processmail', line #587 this statement:

    open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -ODeliveryMode=deferred -t") ||
      die "Can't open sendmail";

causes Postfix's sendmail analogon _not_ to send the mail, because it does
not support the "-ODeliveryMode=deferred" flag.
Therefore, it is simply fixed by:

    open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t") || die "Can't open sendmail";

if you run Postfix. Postfix provides sendmail, mailq and some other
programs for easy migration from sendmail but apparently this -O flag
is not supported (-t is supported and mentioned in the man page).

Maybe it's an idea to put a '$postfix = 0 (no) or 1 (yes)' in checksetup.pl
and localconfig? Under SuSE Linux 6.4 you can test for Postfix presence with:

    my $postfix = (-x "/usr/sbin/postfix") ? 1 : 0;

Fyi: Postfix (www.postfix.org) is a very secure mta, developed and
open-sourced by Wietse Venema working for IBM and aimed at replacing
sendmail. Postfix has better security, maintainability and configurability,
performance and disk usage than sendmail (it's worth looking at!).

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I think this was fixed in bug 50698.  Please take a look and let me know if you 
agree.  A parameter was added that allows you to set whether or not the 
-ODeliveryMode=deferred is passed in the sendmail command line.

If I don't hear any objections within a week, I will mark this as fixed.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Fixed by bug 50698, per private email from reporter.

Found a couple other semi-related things that he pointed out, but they'll get 
their own bug reports.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

In search of accurate queries....  (sorry for the spam)

Comment 4

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

V.

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

I release noted this BTW.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Moving closed bugs to Bugzilla product