Version 8.11.1 - (Revision 1.6)

[James OReilly]

Applied recent sendmail fix to HP-UX 11.00
and now I when I use the Subject line option within mailx I'm unable to see any Subject line when mail arrives.


Version 8.11.1 - (Revision 1.6)

$ echo test | mailx -s "TEST" usera

Is there an option I need to set in the sendmail.cf after applying the patch?

Thanks,
Jim

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Jim,

Think you have applied the wrong patch.
8.11.1 is the 11iv2 (11.23) patch.
The most recent sendmail ver for 11.0 is 8.9.3 - PHNE_29773 - here:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?patchid=PHNE_29773&sel={hpux:11.00,}&BC=main|search|

This may explain the strange behavior.

HTH,
Jeff

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Jim,

Sure its not an 11i v1 system. I was just asked to sendmail patch an can confirm that this patch is not offered for 11.00.

What I can also confirm is that it will install on 11.00

file /usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail: PA-RISC1.1 shared executable dynamically linked


Its a PA-RISC executable and should work just fine on 11.00. How not nice of HP to not simply offer the patch for 11.00.

As far as this symptom goes, I can't explain that. Try backing out the patch and see if it goes away. I don't think this is something you can modify sendmail.cf to fix.

SEP

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi (again) Jim,

I think I understand now.
You installed the new sendmail product - not a patch.
But either way sendmail.cf does not control anything about the subject line AFAIK.
I would suggest you look at whatever sendmail rules are being used on the relay.
You may also want to disable the relay temporarily so you can trap the mail in the queue & then look at the data portion to see if it contains the subject line. That would tell you whether your system, the relay or the receiving system is stripping it.

HTH,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

Sorry - the subject line is in the q file in the queue directory.
The d file only contains the body of the message.

Jeff

[James OReilly]

Yes, I installed the sendmail depot that takes HP-UX 11.00 from 8.11.005 to .006

It does seem mailx works correctly from our relay but other server coming thru the relay get the subject stript off.

* Software selections:
Sendmail-811,r=B.11.00.01.006,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=HP
SMAIL-811.INETSVCS-SMAIL,r=B.11.00.01.006,a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=H
P,fr=B.11.00.01.006,fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64

swinstall -s /tmp/sendmail-811_01.006.depot

/usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 Version 8.11.1 - (Revision 1.6)