[lsb-discuss] /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs flag in LSB

[Don Armstrong]

Recently Debian ran into an issue with nullmailer[1] not providing a
-bs flag, while providing /usr/{sbin,lib}/sendmail.

Unfortunatly, for nullmailer, and to a similar degree, ssmtp, -bs
doesn't have any real meaning for an MTA that is only an MTA, not an
MDA.

While searching the archives of lsb-spec, I didn't see any discussion
of the reasons behind including the -bs option in the LSB
specification, as it appears to have sprung up from merely culling the
exim, sendmail, qmail, and ssmtp options.[2]

Does anything extant actually use the -bs option to
/usr/sbin/sendmail?

If so, shouldn't they really be checking the exit code rather than the
likely useless SMTP responses?


Don Armstrong

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1: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271662
2: http://lists.debian.org/lsb-spec/1999/11/msg00028.html
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