[comp.mail.mh] Problems with slocal in mh

deford%linus%mitre-bedford.arpa@ICS.UCI.EDU (03/15/88)

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If This has been seen before it is because I was not on the 
mh-workers list and was not getting the replies.  Any help
here would be appreciated.  If  all else fails, I will go in and
debug the code, but I was hoping someone has a better idea.
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I have been having problems trying to get slocal to do something
interesting.  If I just use the default setting to deliver to my
mailbox, then everything is fine.  But if I try to make it do 
anything else, then I get a segmentation violation.  I am using
mh6.5 on a sun 3/75 workstation running 3.4.  The following is a 
transcript of what happens:

Script started on Wed Feb 24 09:55:08 1988
zippy: ~, 10 > which slocal
/usr/local/lib/mh/slocal
zippy: ~, 11 > show
(Message inbox:1)
Return-Path: deford
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From: Kevin Deford <deford>
Posted-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 09:25:34 EST
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 09:25:34 EST
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To: deford
Subject: test
 test 17
zippy: ~, 12 > cat .maildelivery
#  My mail delivery broken out into interesting parts:
#  first lets get mail for mh use
#To       deford    >          A    /guru/deford/deford_test
default  -         >          ?    mailbox
zippy: ~, 13 > show | slocal -verbose -debug
temporary file "/tmp/slocala02939" selected
addr="deford" user="deford" info="" file="/tmp/slocala02939"
sender="(null)" mbox="/usr/spool/mail/deford" home="/guru/deford" from
""
ddate="Delivery-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 10:02:47 EST
" now=10:02
vec[0]: "default"
vec[1]: "-"
vec[2]: ">"
vec[3]: "?"
vec[4]: "mailbox"
	delivering to file "mailbox", done.
zippy: ~, 14 > cat .maildelivery
#  My mail delivery broken out into interesting parts:
#  first lets get mail for mh use
To       deford    >          A    /guru/deford/deford_test
default  -         >          ?    mailbox
zippy: ~, 15 > show | slocal -verbose -debug
temporary file "/tmp/slocala02942" selected
addr="deford" user="deford" info="" file="/tmp/slocala02942"
sender="(null)" mbox="/usr/spool/mail/deford" home="/guru/deford" from
""
ddate="Delivery-Date: Wed, 24 Feb 88 10:03:38 EST
" now=10:03
vec[0]: "To"
vec[1]: "deford"
vec[2]: ">"
vec[3]: "A"
vec[4]: "/guru/deford/deford_test"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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 syntax: slocal [switches] [address info sender]
switches are:
-addr address
-user name
-file file
-sender address
-mailbox file
-home directory
-maildelivery file
-[no]verbose
-debug
-(help)
	      
version: MH 6.5 #52[UCI] (zippy) of Wed Feb 10 14:15:15 EST 1988
options: [BSD42] [BSD43] [BERK] [TTYD] [DUMB] [MHE] [MHRC] [NETWORK]
         [RPATHS] [ATZ] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [MORE='"/usr/local/less"']
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP]
			
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 So does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong?

 -kevin