Bug#485751: When invoked as sendmail, exim4 should keep sendmail compatibility concerning Bcc header

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.org
Wed Jun 11 09:14:33 UTC 2008


On 2008-06-11 10:17:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> First, in the case the MUA wants to send a mail by executing a program
> (the MTA), this interface between the MUA and the MTA is out of the
> scope of the RFC's. The MTA defines an interface, and the MUA has to
> stick with it.

Actually this is now called the MSA (RFC 2476). Still, the interface
is a matter of implementation, not defined by the RFC's.

Also, this bug concerns only the case where the /usr/sbin/sendmail
gets the e-mail via *standard input*.

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