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From: pep@down.FUN
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: sendmail: The Vietnam of 4.2 BSD
Message-ID: <1100001@down.FUN>
Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 13:24:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 13:24:00 1985
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Nf-From: down!pep    Feb 19 13:24:00 1985

Why did this mail fail?

	From ace Mon Feb 18 10:39:57 1985
	Received: by mind.UUCP (4.12/4.7)
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	Date: Mon, 18 Feb 85 10:39:48 est
	From: MAILER-DAEMON (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
	Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
	To: ace

	   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
	554 down!pep... Unbalanced '(': Bad file number
	554 down!pep... Unbalanced '(': Bad file number

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	Date: Mon, 18 Feb 85 10:39:48 est
	From: ace (Counseling Program Project (rec)
	Message-Id: <8502181539.AA00715@mind.UUCP>
	To: down!pep

	<message>

Strong hint:  What's wrong with this line from a 4.2 /etc/passwd?

ace:*:146:11:Counseling Program Project (rec,mab):/u1/ace:/bin/csh

Oh, that's right - sendmail extracts the string for "From:" from the fifth
field in /etc/passwd, but apparently only the first 31 characters.  Then
sendmail coddles the string in a set of parentheses.  But what have we here?
An extra left parenthesis on the "From:" line?  Well, that will never do.
Stomp on this message!  Stomp on every message this poor user tries to send!

I really wanted to submit this to net.bugs.sendmail.  Now that honey danber
has been released, isn't net.bugs.uucp obsolete?
							Pat Parseghian
							Princeton Univ. EECS