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diff --git a/contrib/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS b/contrib/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS index 29c6a9e..f3a42e7 100644 --- a/contrib/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS +++ b/contrib/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ This list is not guaranteed to be complete. restructuring of the code -- for example, almost no C library support could be used to handle strings. +* Header checks are not called if header value is too long. + + If the value of a header is longer than 1250 (MAXNAME + MAXATOM - 6) + characters or it contains a single word longer than 256 (MAXNAME) + characters then no header check is done even if one is configured for + the header. + * Duplicate error messages. Sometimes identical, duplicate error messages can be generated. As @@ -193,10 +200,10 @@ This list is not guaranteed to be complete. local mail delivery and NFS hard mounted home directories should be avoided, as attempts to open the forward files could hang. -* Race condition for delivery to setuid files +* Race condition for delivery to set-user-id files Sendmail will deliver to a fail if the file is owned by the DefaultUser - or has the setuid bit set. Unfortunately, some systems clear that bit + or has the set-user-id bit set. Unfortunately, some systems clear that bit when a file is modified. Sendmail compensates by resetting the file mode back to it's original settings. Unfortunately, there's still a permission failure race as sendmail checks the permissions before locking @@ -211,4 +218,4 @@ This list is not guaranteed to be complete. state. This option and it's use is deprecated and will be removed from a future version of sendmail. -$Revision: 8.43.16.1 $, Last updated $Date: 2000/09/28 00:45:37 $ +$Revision: 8.43.16.2 $, Last updated $Date: 2001/07/31 22:42:46 $ |
