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Re: sendmail and starttls failing

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On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Tim Woodall wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jun 2024, Michael Grant wrote:
>
>> After an update today, sendmail is refusing to accept mail.  I'm
>> seeing this in the logs:
>> 
>
> Hmmm, this update seems to have done a lot of odd things.
>

root@dirac:~# mail root
Cc: 
Subject: test cr
this
is^Ma test
.
root@dirac:~# mailq
MSP Queue status...
                 /var/spool/mqueue-client (1 request)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
45ULV1xk014043       15 Sun Jun 30 22:31 root@dirac.home.woodall.me.uk
                  (Deferred: 421 4.5.0 Bare carriage return (CR) not allowed)
                                          root
                 Total requests: 1
MTA Queue status...
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
                 Total requests: 0



According to this
https://support.trustwave.com/kb/KnowledgebaseArticle10016.aspx

bare CRs aren't allowed in emails but this has always worked.

I'm only likely to have cron generating emails like this.

Strange that this would have been changed in a stable release. It
doesn't seem to have been a security update.

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sendmail and starttls failing Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-06-30 18:00 +0200
  Re: sendmail and starttls failing Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-06-30 18:40 +0200
    Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-06-30 20:40 +0200
  Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-06-30 23:30 +0200
    Re: sendmail and starttls failing Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2024-06-30 23:40 +0200
      Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-07-01 00:40 +0200
        Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-07-01 11:30 +0200
          Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-07-01 18:40 +0200
    Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-07-01 00:10 +0200
      Re: sendmail and starttls failing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-07-01 00:20 +0200
        Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-07-01 00:30 +0200
          Re: sendmail and starttls failing Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 10:50 +0200
            Re: sendmail and starttls failing Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-07-01 11:20 +0200
            Re: sendmail and starttls failing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-07-01 13:30 +0200
        Re: sendmail and starttls failing Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 00:50 +0200
      Re: sendmail and starttls failing Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2024-07-01 00:50 +0200

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