Re: Email is cut off

Niklas Albers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> "The -i switch in the arguments line is important (thanks to Chris Moules
> for the hint):

Yes, sendmail by default uses the SMTP convention to signal end-of-message,
rather than reading to EOF.  That's for historical reasons, and probably can't
be changed for backwards-compatibility.

Anyone using a sendmail submission agent should probably be using the -i
option for *all* software; I would think all modern software would be fine
with read-to-EOF behaviour, but I could be wrong.

Note I still recommend strongly against re-injecting mail retrieved with
getmail into an MTA's queue.  It's pretty much never necessary, and unless
you're extremely careful, can cause problems for postmasters around the 'net,
possibly without you even being aware it's happening.

Charles
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