[net.bugs.4bsd] Mail dumps core

david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (10/07/85)

Index: /usr/src/ucb/Mail, BRL Release 3 (4.2BSD)

Problem: Mail dumps core when replying to the following message:


	From cbosgd!seismo!mcvax!ukc!glasgow.uucp!cs.glasgow.uucp!days Fri Oct  4 18:48:13 1985
	Received: by ukma.UUCP (4.12/4.7)
		id AA08686; Fri, 4 Oct 85 18:48:06 edt
	Received: from mcvax.UUCP by seismo.CSS.GOV with UUCP; Fri, 4 Oct 85 15:17:25 EDT
	Received: by mcvax.UUCP; Fri, 4 Oct 85 17:24:09 +0100 (MET)
	Received: from glasgow by ukc.uucp id a016487; 4 Oct 85 15:45 BST
	From: Stephen Day <seismo!cs.glasgow.UUCP!mcvax!days>
	Date: Fri, 4 Oct 85 14:48:29 -0100
	Message-Id: <8510041348.AA15207@glasgow.cs.glasgow.uucp>
	Date-Received: Fri, 4 Oct 85 14:48:29 -0100
	To: david <%mcvax.uucp:@seismo.uucp:%hao.uucp:%hplabs.uucp:%qantel.uucp:%ihnp4.uucp:%>
	Subject: Re: What newsgroups are *really* needed?
	Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.group
	Cc: cs!glasgow.UUCP!days
	References: <2242@ukma.UUCP>
	Status: RO

	I see two strange parts in the header.  First is the To: line.  Notice
	the address it has for it.  It looks a little like his news reader used
	the Path: line for my address then it got munged somewhere along the
	way.

	The other strange part is the incorrect ordering of host names in the
	From: line.  But that shouldn't cause a problem, it'd just cause the
	mail to not be delivered (unless there is a days at mcvax).

	BTW, the core dump doesn't give much useful.  Adb tells me a stack
	trace of something like "?() 8a74".


Repeat-by: Log in onto my account, get into mail, and type 'r 34'.  :-)
-- 
David Herron, ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA, cbosgd!ukma!david
(Soon -- david@UKMA.BITNET, and (hopefully) david@ukma.csnet)

Hackin's in me blood!  My mother was known as Miss Hacker before she married!

mp@allegra.UUCP (Mark Plotnick) (10/16/85)

Mail isn't accustomed to seeing such long strings on the right-hand side of
an '@'.   Expand optim.netlook.nbuf to be BUFSIZ characters long
instead of 20, so that the saved registers in your stack frame
don't get trashed when a long address is presented to netlook().

	Mark Plotnick
	allegra["never a long address when you go through us"]!mp