Re: cron MAILTO/MAILFROM breakage: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:43:14 +0200, Matthias Urlichs
<matthias@urlichs.de> wrote:
>apparently cron added a MAILFROM envvar. The same patch added a
>whitelist of the range of permitted characters..
>
>We're a bit unhappy about that because it breaks existing installations:
>some ticketing / workflow systems use the destination address to set
>variables like severity or ticket category.
>
>Also this is not mentioned in the `debian/cron.NEWS` file.
>
>It's possibly a bit late to get this fixed before the release, but …
Is there a bugreport for that?
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