* David Hand via RT (bug-MailTools@rt.cpan.org) [070914 07:55]:
Show quoted text> Fri Sep 14 03:55:56 2007: Request 29361 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by COGENT
> Queue: MailTools
> Subject: $sender ignored between open() and exec()
> Broken in: 1.77
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: COGENT@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29361 >
>
>
> In Mail/Mailer.pm, in the code for open() (specifically, on line 277 and
> again on line 284), there's a call to exec():
>
> $self->exec($exe, $args, \@to, $sender)
>
> But exec() ignores this last argument (line 308), which should be used
> for, among other things, the envelope sender:
>
> my($self, $exe, $args, $to) = @_;
>
> The function is a short one; $sender is completely ignored throughout.
> The envelope sender can be a reasonably important thing, and there's a
> reasonable expectation that Mail::Send (and therefore Mail::Mailer) will
> use it.
Although Mail::Mailer::exec() does not use it, the module is extended
by Mail::Mailer::*, of which some implementation (for instance the qmail)
do use the sender field.
I have at added the $sender argument to the remaining function
prototypes, but will not look at the implementation to use it (it
may break existing code, so takes quite some testing to be sure that
the implementation is ok, and I have no time for that) You may take
that challenge.
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Regards,
MarkOv
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