[WebDNA] Sendmail BCC bug still exists
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texte = This bug was reported by Diane Blackwell on 31 Oct 2012 but I could not find any replies to her bug report in the archives, nor can I recall WSC saying they fixed this problem: > Have found a bug with the emailer in WebDNA_6.2.1_x86_64deb. It > works fine without the BCC line, but when a BCC line is added, > it sends the email with (oh here they are) random characters in > the 'to' address, no subject and three repeating lines of code > from the body. This bug still exists in both 8.02 and 8.1 on my latest Ubuntu 14.04 server. I guess there's no sense in my asking for an earlier version of 8.x to see if it exists on those versions. After all, if this bug has existed since 6.2.1 then it only makes sense that it still exists in all versions since. However, this is a bizarre situation because I was using 8.1 on another Ubuntu 14.04 server and it was working perfectly fine with a bcc field in most of my [sendmail] tags. So it seems that this is not a problem on all servers. I moved the website from that server to a new server last week. That's when this problem started. I cannot explain why it suddenly appeared on the new server without ever appearing on the old server, but now my client wonders if I can fix it -- and right now my only apparent option is to remove the bcc field from every [sendmail] context on the new server. Not a desirable task to say the least ... and not something that should be necessary given the fact that we are supposed to be able to use any headers we feel like using in our [sendmail] tags, theoretically without causing WebDNA's internal code to create such problems! It seems like something must be wrong with the internal code that generates email messages from our email files. This is why I think we need the C++ programmer of WebDNA to figure out what might be causing this problem. Maybe he can track it down and squash this bug some day soon? My problem is very much as Diane described it: Sendmail mucks up the message when using a bcc field. In my case it sometimes causes the subject field to be blank while other times it just screws up the subject text ... and it always seems to screw up the body of the message, sometimes repeating sections of text 2-3 times or leaving sections out entirely. HELP!!! Regards, Kenneth Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.webdnasolutions.com Web Database Systems and Linux Server Administration
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This bug was reported by Diane Blackwell on 31 Oct 2012 but I could not find any replies to her bug report in the archives, nor can I recall WSC saying they fixed this problem: > Have found a bug with the emailer in WebDNA_6.2.1_x86_64deb. It > works fine without the BCC line, but when a BCC line is added, > it sends the email with (oh here they are) random characters in > the 'to' address, no subject and three repeating lines of code > from the body. This bug still exists in both 8.02 and 8.1 on my latest Ubuntu 14.04 server. I guess there's no sense in my asking for an earlier version of 8.x to see if it exists on those versions. After all, if this bug has existed since 6.2.1 then it only makes sense that it still exists in all versions since. However, this is a bizarre situation because I was using 8.1 on another Ubuntu 14.04 server and it was working perfectly fine with a bcc field in most of my
[sendmail] tags. So it seems that this is not a problem on all servers. I moved the website from that server to a new server last week. That's when this problem started. I cannot explain why it suddenly appeared on the new server without ever appearing on the old server, but now my client wonders if I can fix it -- and right now my only apparent option is to remove the bcc field from every
[sendmail] context on the new server. Not a desirable task to say the least ... and not something that should be necessary given the fact that we are supposed to be able to use any headers we feel like using in our
[sendmail] tags, theoretically without causing WebDNA's internal code to create such problems! It seems like something must be wrong with the internal code that generates email messages from our email files. This is why I think we need the C++ programmer of WebDNA to figure out what might be causing this problem. Maybe he can track it down and squash this bug some day soon? My problem is very much as Diane described it: Sendmail mucks up the message when using a bcc field. In my case it sometimes causes the subject field to be blank while other times it just screws up the subject text ... and it always seems to screw up the body of the message, sometimes repeating sections of text 2-3 times or leaving sections out entirely. HELP!!! Regards, Kenneth Grome WebDNA Solutions http://www.webdnasolutions.com Web Database Systems and Linux Server Administration
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