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From: jeff@wubios.wustl.edu (Jeff Gabel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Fatal bus error condition under elm 2.3 pl9
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.204010.7183@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 20:40:10 GMT
Sender: jeff@wubios.wustl.edu (Jeff Gabel)
Organization: Division of Biostatistics, WUMS, St. Louis, MO
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Configuration: Running elm 2.3 pl9 on Sun 3/260 under SunOS 4.1
Elm was configured without debugging enabled for this installation,
so the error message we get is minimal.

Bug: When using s)ave or C)opy for particular messages getting a 
fatal error (as follows):

Bus error signal!

Emergency exit taken! All temp files left intact!

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Essentially, if I send a message to mutiple recipients, with myself included
as a recipient (i.e., I'm in both the `From:' and `To:' headers), and then 
attempt to save or copy it to the default folder for that message  (in this 
case `jeff'), this error can occur. The relationship of the headers to this 
error is not totally clear, as I can simply mail myself a message and 
successfully save it. Also, things function normally when I Cc: myself, or 
just send to 1 or 2 other recipients besides myself. As a matter of fact, 
another user pointed out that attempting to save certain multiple recipient 
messages, in which they were not the sender, also generated this error. So, 
in fact, I'm guessing that the `To:' header probably doesn't come into play at 
all here; the correspondence of the `To:' header to this error is simply what 
I observed and I haven't had a chance to test any further.

Thanks,
Jeff

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