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From: royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Keenan Royle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Sort of an elm probem.  (really BSD Mail is broke)
Message-ID: <69467@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 04:42:49 GMT
Expires: 2 Nov 90 04:42:48 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Indiana University
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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Anyway I figured the Mail that DEC distrubutes must be out of
date.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