Bug 121781
| Summary: | usage text and man page don't have correct delimiter for sendmail-options | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrew Jorgensen <andrew+redhat+bugzilla> |
| Component: | mailx | Assignee: | Ivana Varekova <varekova> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-12-03 10:36:03 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Thank you for your notice. The problem was fixed. IV Solved with -40. |
Description of problem: The usage message contains the following: Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ... [- sendmail-options ...] ^ This is incorrect, it should be [-- sendmail-options ...] on Linux. GNU getopt reorders options unless you tell it not to, so options placed after the last to-addr are interpreted by mail instead of by sendmail. Apparently the -- will separate them so that the options are interpreted by sendmail instead. This is an acceptable fix for the problem, but it needs to be documented correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Arch : i386 Version: 8.1.1 Release: 31.1 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: according to the usage message (the manpage says nothing at all about passing options to sendmail): mail recipient@host - -f sender@otherhost should pass '-f sender@otherhost' to sendmail, but it doesn't. This commandline gives an error message from 'mail' that says, "Cannot give -f and people to send to." On the other hand: mail recipient@host -- -f sender@otherhost properly passes the -f option to sendmail and sets the From: header to the specified address.