<OT> I'm testing stuff... (was Re: need some help with networking on a friends)

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 03 September 2002 10:05 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 08:34 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Also sprach Tim Wunder:
>
> <snip>
>
> > > Well, you obviously got the entire message, are you using sendmail?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > What version?
> >
> > 8.12.4, invoked with the -i option, which has the effect described below,
> > if it's relevant in this case:
> >
> >        -i     Ignore dots alone on lines by themselves in  incom-
> >               ing  messages.  This should be set if you are read-
> >               ing data from a file.
>
> Hmmm... how about that? 'man sendmail'
> Do you know how many times today I recommended that someone read the man
> page? Should take my own advice every now and again...
> Looks like my version of sendmail should be able to do that. I just gotta
> figger out how sendmail gets started on COL and how to specify -i. I'm
> looking thru /etc/rc.d/init.d/mta and /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail, but
> nothing's jumping out at me...I'll figger it out (hopefully...)
>

Well, I edited the OPTIONS environment variable in /etc/sysconfig/daemons/mta, 
which was OPTIONS="-bd -q5m" and is now OPTIONS="-bd -q5m -i", and now the 
test...
.

Wish me luck
Crossing fingers...

Tim

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