Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site haring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!turing!haring!jaap From: jaap@haring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.bugs.4bsd,net.mail Subject: Re: /bin/rmail bug Message-ID: <291@haring.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 05:00:17 EDT Article-I.D.: haring.291 Posted: Fri Sep 7 05:00:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 07:46:29 EDT References: <5962@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 23 Apparently-To: rnews@turing.LOCAL Problem: >From @abc-de-fg.arpa:@hij-klm-nopqr:use... makes /bin/rmail dumps core. (Core???:-)) Solution: Increase an array size (ufrom) from 64 to, let's say, BUFSIZE. This is not a flame to the Piet's article. I guess, that increasing 64 to BUFSIZE will solve some problems. I just can not ignore remembering all the other bug fixes to the net software (and UNIX software in general). A lot of the fixes are arbitrary. Just raise a constant until something else breaks (and maybe a more interesting problem pops up, like parsing the "``quoted'' From" line). Of course /bin/rmail has never been designed, hacked or coded to do the job it is suppose to handle now. I just cannot help wondering whether the next `news release' (3.0.0?) will still inspire to `Bug Fixes' like above mentioned. jaap (mcvax!jaap)