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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Sendmail and V4.1
Message-ID: <1991Jan05.043519.414@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 04:35:19 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.102027.12209@odin.diku.dk> <91004.125939DEEJ@MAINE.BITNET>
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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There is a bug in the /usr/ucb/mail program with ULTRIX 4.0 (at least --
I don't know if it is fixed with 4.1). There is a buffer being used to
hold an addressee's hostname to check against your own.  Anyway, the
buffer is too short for your hostname (and I assume other hostnames as
well).  If you have sources, patch optim.c -- fakepath needs to be longer
than 20.  (80 is probably big enough :-). )

I've sent a note along about it to the folks who maintain it.  You might
check to see if there is a patch available as this will bit anyone
who's hostname.domain is longer than 20 characters.

Fred