Subject: Re: your mail

From: bob ellsworth s <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 15:14:36 -0300 (EDT)

hi : i wonder if any of the pine gurus can comment on the following
problem we have with pine3.05.

many of our administrators use pine to communicate electronically with large
groups of people at our university. we have several people who have defined
groups that contain more than 100 addresses. i (as postmaster) have found
two instances in which pine seems unwilling to accept more than about 91
addresses. in particular it only expands part of the 91st addresss causing
sendmail to complain about unbalanced parenthesis.

any help would be appreciated and i can forward an instance of mail being
returned because of the above if it would be of any help.

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From: "David L. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 13:40:59 -0700 (PDT)

Pine should be able to handle 1000 addresses by default.  My suggestion
would be to duplicate the problem, then grab a copy of your .pine-debug1
file, .addressbook file and instructions to duplicate the problem to
[email-masked] or myself...

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David L. Miller                       Internet: [email-masked]
Systems Programmer/Network Analyst      BITNET: MILLERD@WSUVM1
Washington State University Tri-Cities    UUCP: ...!yoda!dmiller
100 Sprout Road                          
Richland, WA 99352                       Phone: (509)375-9245
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From: Ron Pool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 17:58:32 -0400 (EDT)

I've run into the same problem on our system.  It turned out to be
sendmail that was at fault.  I've replaced sendmail with smail3 and the
problem is now gone.
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Ron Pool; Electronic Technology Group; B-15 Wing Hall; Ithaca, NY 14853
Internet: [email-masked]

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 15:18:32 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 3 May 1993, Ron Pool wrote:

> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 17:58:32 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ron Pool <[email-masked]>
> To: "David L. Miller" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: bob ellsworth s <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: your mail
> 

When using sendmail, it is typically the final delivery program (often 
/bin/mail) that escapes the From_ lines.  There is also a per-mailer flag in 
sendmail that will cause it to escape the From_s before it passes the message
to the mailer, if you'd like.  That's the "E" flag.  But I think most people
rely on the actual deliverer to do the job.

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From: Ron Pool <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 18:37:25 -0400 (EDT)

> rely on the actual deliverer to do the job.

I'll take your word for it.  Smail3 comes with a replacement /bin/mail that
I installed along with the rest of the smail3 package.
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Ron Pool; Electronic Technology Group; B-15 Wing Hall; Ithaca, NY 14853
Internet: [email-masked]