Re: Uploaded sendmail 8.8.8-13 (source i386) to master
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
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> On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Yann Dirson wrote:
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> > Richard A Nelson writes:
> > > Binary: sendmail
> > > Version: 8.8.8-13
> > > Changes:
> > > * Cleanup mqueue on start of daemon (#20637)
> >
> > Uh ? What do you mean by cleanup ? Does this mean you do a "rm -f
> > /var/spool/mqueue/*" on startup ?
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> Yes, I'm afraid:
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> case "$1" in
> start)
> ( cd /var/spool/mqueue && rm -f [lnx]f* )
AGhhh!
That's a horrible horrible bug!
I'm glad I'm not using that on my production mail hosts ;)
The only reasonably action you could take is remove (or, preferable, warn
postmaster) about d files without x files, etc.
Jules
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