[PATCH] sendmail: EHLO/HELO should use a domain

[Vladimir Dronnikov]

>
> > So your MTA INcorrectly discards that EHLO.
> no. I think it was my postfix's reject_invalid_hostname option that
> rejected the email address in the EHLO.


In either case it is MTA, not BB sendmail client, problem, agreed?

We should probably not even complain. Need to support MAIL FROM: <> as
> others said.


Yes. It should use it verbatim. <off>Let spammers employ BB sendmail more
actively ;)))</off>

> > bash so I changed it to SMTPHOST.
> > Personally, I would get completely rid of environ here. -H switch is
> > good,
> So using a env var was an cheap way to get away from having a config
> file.


I see. Makes sense.

> and localhost is the sane fallback IMO.
> If you use busybox sendmail, then I'm pretty sure you dont have a real
> MTA listening on localhost port 25. (because if you do have postfix
> running then you use the postfix sendmail and not busybox sendmail)


Actually when I developed sendmail I used to have XMail on localhost :) That
is where this default is from. But I would not object if we had no default
host at all.

So would you rediff and send the result?

Regards,
--
Vladimir
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