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Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!marob!daveh
From: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: SCO MAIL
Message-ID: <26233315.262A@marob.masa.com>
Date: 11 Apr 90 13:37:23 GMT
References: <6073@ozdaltx.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Distribution: usa
Organization: ESCC,  New York City
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In article <6073@ozdaltx.UUCP> root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
>Anytime, an extreamly long To path is passed to mail (from a news
>article), the C.xxx file always gets bunged with the wrong address for
>the system that polls us.
>
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 uucp     uucp         108 Apr  5 12:41 C.a!babbaA6745
>                                 should read     ==>  C.micA6745
>
>To: mic!letni!texsun!newstop!sun-barr!apple!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!\
>uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!uvaarpa!babbage!watt.acc.Virginia.EDU!jeg7e
                                          ^^^^^^^

Perhaps sco's mailer maintains a small, automatic array for some portion
of the path resolution code, does not check for overflow, and the
overflow clobbers some other portion of the stack.

--
Dave Hammond
daveh@marob.masa.com
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