On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Vijay Sankar <vsankar@foretell.ca> wrote:

<sigh>  What do you think it does, how did you use it, and how did you
determine that it has no effect?

I've already noted that the -B option only affects submission and is
ignored when running sendmail as a daemon, making GVG's usage of it
incorrect.  If you aren't feeding the sendmail command an email
message on stdin, then the -B option isn't for you.


Philip Guenther

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Sorry for the noise. I should not have sent that message. 

What happened was, in a misguided attempt to help, I tried running sendmail 
with the various options GVG had mentioned.

/usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf -bd -qp -B8BITMIME -X
/$HOME/mail_log 

and got the error

Jul 10 11:54:09 vijay sm-mta[22142]: 
NOQUEUE:SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such 
file or directory

on my desktop. Obviously this had nothing to do with -B8BITMIME and was due to 
my having renamed /etc/mail/sendmail.cf sometime ago 
to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.original. But I misunderstood the error because I 
was in a rush and thought it was due to the flag -B8BITMIME.

Thanks very much for taking the time to correct my mistake.

Vijay

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ForeTell Technologies Limited
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Phone: +1 204 885 9535, E-Mail: vsankar@foretell.ca

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