Public bug reported:
Upgrade from Ubuntu server v16.04 to v18.04 made our group mail script to fail.
"mail -a" is not working like before, failing with:
"mail: Errors parsing message"
Problem is located at parsing "To:" field as additional parameter, which
has been working before upgrade of Ubuntu version.
Sample bash code:
mail_it()
{
echo "$data" | mail \
-a From:"$new_from" \
-a Return-Path:"$new_returnpath" \
-a Reply-To:"$new_returnpath" \
-a Subject:"$new_subject" \
-a Message-ID:"$new_messageid" \
-a MIME-Version:"$mimeversion" \
-a Content-Type:"$contenttype" \
-a Content-Language:"$contentlanguage" \
-a Content-Transfer-Encoding:"$contenttransferencoding" \
-a Auto-Submitted:"$autosub" \
-a To:"$new_to"
}
That fails with long email address at "To:" field like this:
John Developer <j...@example.com>
while it still works with short address
j...@example.com
mail --version
mail (GNU Mailutils) 3.4
Copyright © 2007-2017 Free Software Foundation, inc.
Lisenssi GPLv3+: GNU GPL versio 3 tai myöhäisempi
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
** Affects: mailutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mail "-a" not accepting long "To:" field after o/s upgrade
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