Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 79617
binary dist: sendmail component wrong version
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:49:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: In the binary RPM file postfix-1.1.7-2.i386.rpm an incorrect, out-of-date version of the "sendmail" binary was built into the RPM. This results in a number of rather scary error messages being inserted into /var/log/maillog, but does not seem to affect mail transport. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install binary postfix RPM 2. type "mail <external-mail-address>" 3. type a message, follow with "." on a line by itself. 4. hit CR at the Cc: prompt. 5. watch the messages come on the screen, and look in /var/log/maillog Actual Results: Got either one or two error messages: "mail_scan_int: bad integer: status" and "fatal: root(0): Error writing message file". The mail message, however, is sent to its final destination Expected Results: ship the message without the bogus complaints. Additional info: Reproduced on multiple systems, including a laptop system, running Red Hat 7.3.
the postfix rpm's have been significantly updated since this was reported, in a few days postfix-2.0.11 should appear in rawhide. I don't believe this to be a problem anymore, at least as of postfix-2.0.6.