steve@miduet.mifnet.gec-mi-ate.co.uk (Steve Lademann) (05/13/86)
No doubt this is old hat, but for your edification:- There is a bug in /usr/ucb/Mail which occurs when a system name is rather long (as they tend to be when dealing with domain addresses in the uk). This occurred to me when I attempted to reply (r, not R) to mail from a local system whose fully qualified name was 30 characters. The problem exhibits itself as a random crash (either illegal instruction or core dump) which occurs in the routine netlook in /usr/src/ucb/Mail/optim.c The fix is to increase the size of the temporary buffer for the system name nbuf[20] (line 95). I increased it to 40, as there seems to be quite a lot of other stuff with a length of 40 chars, and why should I be different? "Beware the Juggernauts, my son" (Willie Rushton) ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Steve Lademann |Phone: 44 727 59292 x326 | |Marconi Instruments Ltd|UUCP : ...mcvax!ukc!hrc63!miduet!steve | |St. Albans AL4 0JN |NRS : steve@uk.co.gec-mi-ate.mifnet | |Herts. UK | | ---------------------------------------------------------- /\H -- |"The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect"| /__\ | |"those of my employer, and may not even reflect my own"| | | | -----------------------------------------------------------------
bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) (10/02/86)
Does anyone know off-hand the fix to a bug in replying to mail
which causes a repeated reply address, for example:
[this is on a SUN running 3.0 but I've seen it on our vanilla 4.2bsd VAX also]
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To: ab, alpert, karenl, veress
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I'll try to hunt it down but I suspect someone already has, thanks in
advance if you have a fix.
-Barry Shein, Boston Universityguy@sun.UUCP (10/05/86)
> Does anyone know off-hand the fix to a bug in replying to mail > which causes a repeated reply address, for example: > > [this is on a SUN running 3.0 but I've seen it on our vanilla 4.2bsd VAX > also] I tend to doubt that you've seen it on a vanilla 4.2BSD VAX; you sure won't see it on a vanilla 4.3BSD VAX - what you see there is To: bu-cs.bu:ab@edu bu-cs.bu:alpert@edu bu-cs.bu:karenl@edu bu-cs.bu:veress@edu homer@bu-cs.bu.edu Subject: Re: changes which still isn't what you want (4.3BSD "Mail" seems still to believe in the existence of Berknet, so it gets confused about "." in domain names). The bug in question is in some code in "mailx" - the Sun 3.0 "Mail" is derived from "mailx". "mailx" is a hacked-up version of the 4.1BSD "Mail", with a bunch of new stuff added (one such addition caused the bug you saw); we put all the changes between 4.1BSD "Mail" and 4.2BSD "Mail" that applied to "mailx" into it to make the Sun 3.0 "Mail". A bug fix to "mailx" has been posted to "net.bugs.usg". -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)