forcemerge 674522 674962 thanks On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 05:34:05PM -0700, Chris Kloosterman wrote: > Package: request-tracker3.8 > Version: 3.8.8-7+squeeze2 > > After upgrading to the latest security patch, some outgoing email is > not working anymore. Specifically, some emails generated by RT have > no To: header, but several addresses in Bcc:. In this case, I've > started getting log entries in my mail.log: > > May 28 17:00:14 webserver postfix/sendmail[1239]: fatal: www-data(33): > No recipient addresses found in message header > > The email generated by RT is rejected by postfix and is not relayed. > The email is then silently dropped by RT and is never seen again. > > Emails generated by RT are an important part of our workflow. Right > now we're not getting notified when new tickets arrive. > > It appears that the reason for this is that the default outgoing email > configuration uses "sendmailpipe" which includes the "-t" argument. > Since no "To:" headers are present, sendmail gives up and drops the > message without sending it. I don't know why the behaviour has > suddenly changed, though, with the latest RT security patch.
This was indeed a bug in the RT security patch which should be addressed by a follow-up DSA soon (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674522 for more details). Apologies for the inconvience. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
