Re: [WebDNA] Sendmail BCC bug still exists
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texte = Hi Ken! 8.1.1 might take two months to arrive. We are still working on the = installers before releasing 8.1. Trying to improve, but this takes time = considering our resources. The temporary solution is a batch find and replace linux shell = http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-replace-string-words-in-many-files= / and you will find many other solutions of this type. you can also use regexxer, jedit, geany=E2=80=A6 - chris > On May 28, 2015, at 23:19, Kenneth Grome
= wrote: >=20 > Hi Chris, >=20 > Thanks for the quick reply. >=20 > Will 8.1.1 be ready in a couple days, or is this something that > won't be fixed for weeks or months? >=20 > The reason I ask is because I have TONS of [sendmail] contexts in > my client's code, and almost all of them are failing because of my > extensive use of BCC fields. >=20 > :( >=20 > So if you cannot fix this problem very soon it means I must > proceed with a very time-consuming work-around: >=20 > Manually remove all my BCC fields then duplicate each [sendmail] > context using the former BCC addresses in the "TO" field. >=20 > This is a work-around project I would love to avoid if you're able > to fix this problem immediately ... ? >=20 > Regards, > Kenneth Grome > WebDNA Solutions > http://www.webdnasolutions.com > Web Database Systems and Linux Server Administration >=20 >=20 > On 05/28/2015 03:00 PM, christophe.billiottet@webdna.us wrote: >> Noted. We will check this and fix it for 8.1.1 >>=20 >> - chris >>=20 >>=20 >>> On May 28, 2015, at 21:01, Kenneth Grome = wrote: >>>=20 >>> 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: >>>=20 >>>> 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. >>>=20 >>> This bug still exists in both 8.02 and 8.1 on my latest Ubuntu >>> 14.04 server. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> 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! >>>=20 >>> 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? >>>=20 >>> My problem is very much as Diane described it: >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> HELP!!! >>>=20 >>> Regards, >>> Kenneth Grome >>> WebDNA Solutions >>> http://www.webdnasolutions.com >>> Web Database Systems and Linux Server Administration >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list . >>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >>> Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us >>=20 >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >> Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us >>=20 > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us
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Hi Ken! 8.1.1 might take two months to arrive. We are still working on the = installers before releasing 8.1. Trying to improve, but this takes time = considering our resources. The temporary solution is a batch find and replace linux shell = http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-replace-string-words-in-many-files= / and you will find many other solutions of this type. you can also use regexxer, jedit, geany=E2=80=A6 - chris > On May 28, 2015, at 23:19, Kenneth Grome = wrote: >=20 > Hi Chris, >=20 > Thanks for the quick reply. >=20 > Will 8.1.1 be ready in a couple days, or is this something that > won't be fixed for weeks or months? >=20 > The reason I ask is because I have TONS of [sendmail] contexts in > my client's code, and almost all of them are failing because of my > extensive use of BCC fields. >=20 > :( >=20 > So if you cannot fix this problem very soon it means I must > proceed with a very time-consuming work-around: >=20 > Manually remove all my BCC fields then duplicate each [sendmail] > context using the former BCC addresses in the "TO" field. >=20 > This is a work-around project I would love to avoid if you're able > to fix this problem immediately ... ? >=20 > Regards, > Kenneth Grome > WebDNA Solutions > http://www.webdnasolutions.com > Web Database Systems and Linux Server Administration >=20 >=20 > On 05/28/2015 03:00 PM, christophe.billiottet@webdna.us wrote: >> Noted. We will check this and fix it for 8.1.1 >>=20 >> - chris >>=20 >>=20 >>> On May 28, 2015, at 21:01, Kenneth Grome = wrote: >>>=20 >>> 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: >>>=20 >>>> 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. >>>=20 >>> This bug still exists in both 8.02 and 8.1 on my latest Ubuntu >>> 14.04 server. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> 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! >>>=20 >>> 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? >>>=20 >>> My problem is very much as Diane described it: >>>=20 >>> 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. >>>=20 >>> HELP!!! >>>=20 >>> Regards, >>> Kenneth Grome >>> WebDNA Solutions >>> http://www.webdnasolutions.com >>> Web Database Systems and Linux Server Administration >>> --------------------------------------------------------- >>> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >>> the mailing list . >>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >>> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >>> Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us >>=20 >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >> Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us >>=20 > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > Bug Reporting: support@webdna.us
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