[comp.unix.ultrix] ultrix 2.2 sendmail problem

casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom) (06/21/88)

In article <41608@felix.UUCP> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
| 
| The ultrix 2.2 sendmail program (which identifies itself as 1.2/4.7) has
| problems delivering incoming mail that contains very long "From"
| headers.

  This isn't a bug in sendmail.  It's a bug in /bin/mail.  The bug was
reported several times in comp.bugs.4bsd.  A fix for the bug was released
in comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes, in V1.44.  If you have access to 4.3BSD
sources and apply the fix this will fix your problem.

Casey