# [PATCH] Do not over-quote the -f envelopesender value.

1 messages from 2007-09-25 to 2007-09-25. Participants: Jim Meyering.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10008

## Jim Meyering, 2007-09-25 06:48

Subject: [PATCH] Do not over-quote the -f envelopesender value.
Message-ID: <871wcntf38.fsf@rho.meyering.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/871wcntf38.fsf%40rho.meyering.net

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Without this, the value passed to sendmail would have an extra set of
single quotes.  At least exim's sendmail emulation would object to that:

    exim: bad -f address "'list-addr@example.org'": malformed address: ' \
      may not follow 'list-addr@example.org
    error: hooks/post-receive exited with error code 1

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
---
 contrib/hooks/post-receive-email |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
index c589a39..1f88099 100644
--- a/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
+++ b/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
@@ -571,6 +571,15 @@ generate_delete_general_email()
 	echo $LOGEND
 }

+send_mail()
+{
+	if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
+		/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -f "$envelopesender"
+	else
+		/usr/sbin/sendmail -t
+	fi
+}
+
 # ---------------------------- main()

 # --- Constants
@@ -607,13 +616,8 @@ if [ -n "$1" -a -n "$2" -a -n "$3" ]; then
 	# resend an email; they could redirect the output to sendmail themselves
 	PAGER= generate_email $2 $3 $1
 else
-	if [ -n "$envelopesender" ]; then
-		envelopesender="-f '$envelopesender'"
-	fi
-
 	while read oldrev newrev refname
 	do
-		generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname |
-		/usr/sbin/sendmail -t $envelopesender
+		generate_email $oldrev $newrev $refname | send_mail
 	done
 fi
--
1.5.3.2.99.ge4b2-dirty

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