royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle) (11/02/90)
The BSD Mail program on Vax Ultrix 4.1 hangs when you respond to letters generated by elm with addresses listed in the CC: field. It seems to to be CCs of the form: "foo (Foo Bar)" (i.e. with parens) cause Mail to hang. I editted the ()s out of the mail spool and things then worked fine, so I am certian it is the cause. Anyway I figured the Mail that DEC distrubutes must be out of date. So I got the Mail from uunet. Would not make with the "cc" that DEC supplies, but "gcc -traditional" made it ok. It could handled the CC lines ok and seemed to have lots of other additional good stuff like better pattern matching. But, when I did a ^C^C to abort the letter I was sending it seg faulted. I tried compiling with -g and -o and I even cleaned the xstr stuff out of the Makefile so that regular Ultrix cc could make the source, but still the same. Any ideas? I recently introduced elm here, and I don't want to piss off old Mail users who suddenly find the can't reply to their mail. thanks, -- Keenan Royle royle@cs.indiana.edu postmaster@cs.indiana.edu royle@iubacs.bitnet