On 07 11 2003 at 11:53 pm -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

Sam et al.,

I'm following up on this thread I started a couple of weeks ago, with new information.

I modified my client's CGI script to dump sendmail's output to a temp file, so that I was able to examine it next time it fails. It failed this morning. The message that sendmail is putting to stdout is "511 Headers specify no receipients." (sic).

This does not make sense, because there is most definitely a recipient being specified (it is hard-coded in the script). The first few relevant lines of the Perl look like this:

open (MAIL,"|$mailer >/tmp/mei-out-$$") || &CgiError ("Problem with sendmail: $!"); print MAIL "To: know...@example.com\n"; print MAIL "Subject: Website Application: $in{firstname} $in{lastname} has applied via the web site!\n"; print MAIL "From: $in{email} ($in{firstname} $in{lastname})\n\n"; print MAIL <<EOMAIL; stuff here... etc.

$mailer is previously declared as courier's sendmail and the other variables are from the form. I've changed the email address to protect privacy, but as I've indicated, the script does often work (sends the mail) without error.

It seems that sendmail is sometimes randomly deciding that there are no recipients.

Am I doing something wrong here, or is something in submit.C on crack?

-ben