cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) (04/14/89)
I seem to be having some bizarre (but disparate) problems with /usr/ucb/mail on my Apollo. Here they are: 1) (This may actually be a uucp problem) When I receive multiple large shar files during the same session, they often get munged together in no particular order by the time they make into the mbox. If I grab them out of /usr/spool/uucp/D./*, they are in perfectly good shape. Once uux kicks in, they get munged. Symptoms: Varies from subsequent messages overwriting just a small part of the end of the provious message. This happens when the mail messages are larger than about 28K. Other times, the messages just get trashed together, what seems to be bits and pieces all over the place. 2) When replying to a message with `r', and that message has headers in the form of From: User One <iuvax!silver.bacs.indiana.edu!u1> To: cdaf Subject: whatever.... Cc: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!u2 Upon hitting 'r', the new header becomes: To: iuvax!silver.indiana:edu!cdaf iuvax!silver.bacs.indiana.edu!u1 Subject: Re: whatever.... Cc: iuvax!silver.indiana:edu!silver.indiana:edu!u2 (if there are more than 2 addresses, the others also get trans-munged like the second address here. Sendmail has nothing to do with this.) Note that a) the 'cdaf' in the To: line gets a nice long path to nowhere added to it; b) The domain addresses have the 'bacs' slashed out of them, the .edu becomes a :edu, and the first sender's address is always ok, (but also happens to be the only address which is OK. *groan*. 3) Any fixes? SR 10.x is not an option, as I'm running on a DN550, as I've heard that SR 10.x runs at "glacial" speeds on these, among other things. Maybe HP/UX ? ;-) 4) Does anyone have mailx running on their Apollos under 9.7? If it runs on Apollos (and someone has a port for it) I'd like to know from where I can FTP it. Thanks. -charles -- Charles Daffinger >Take me to the river, Drop me in the water< (812) 339-7354 cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu {pur-ee,rutgers,pyramid,ames}!iuvax!cdaf Home of the Whitewater mailing list: whitewater-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
paul@DELRIO.CC.UMICH.EDU ('da Kingfish) (04/15/89)
Jeez, bitching about berknet compatibility -:) I am pretty sure that is why the 'r' command is putting that ':' in your address. Some time ago, someone (precise is my middle name) maybe Chris Torek pointed out that deleting one character from a set of characters in the mail source and recompiling fixed that. I believe that was fixed in 4.3 (sr10), though. My only guess for the stuff getting munged in your mailbox is conncurrently running mail delivery programs writing into your mailbox at the same time. That would happen, I believe, if the processes were on the same node (and the mailbox file could be on any node). I think. Especially if the files were large, it seems like the probability of overlap would be greater. --paul
cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) (04/15/89)
Ok. A couple things I neglected to mention.... In article <42a28a740.000c6e5@delrio.cc.umich.edu> paul@DELRIO.CC.UMICH.EDU ('da Kingfish) writes: > >Jeez, bitching about berknet compatibility -:) *&^*%^*&%*&%. Yup! > >I am pretty sure that is why the 'r' command is putting that ':' in >your address. > >Some time ago, someone (precise is my middle name) maybe Chris Torek >pointed out that deleting one character from a set of characters in the >mail source and recompiling fixed that. I believe that was fixed in >4.3 (sr10), though. Regretfully, I don't have the source to /usr/ucb/mail. > >My only guess for the stuff getting munged in your mailbox is >conncurrently running mail delivery programs writing into your mailbox >at the same time. That would happen, I believe, if the processes were >on the same node (and the mailbox file could be on any node). I >think. Especially if the files were large, it seems like the >probability of overlap would be greater. > >--paul OOps, I forgot to say that I am not running on a ring. This is a stand- alone machine, talking UUCP to the rest of the world. I thought about the possibilities of multiple mail's running concurrently, but that I haven't been able to catch it. Thanks so far... -charles -- Charles Daffinger >Take me to the river, Drop me in the water< (812) 339-7354 cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu {pur-ee,rutgers,pyramid,ames}!iuvax!cdaf Home of the Whitewater mailing list: whitewater-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu