Subject: Bugs

From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 14:02:13 +0100 (BST)

I reported a bug a week ago; messages from a PMDF mailer were causing Pine
to crash in a repeatable way with a 
                Bug in Pine detected
                "Received abort signal"
                Exiting pine
                Arithmetic exception. 

signoff. I realise that you can't have a post-mortem for every bug
reported, but crashing (as opposed to grumbling) because of message
content/format seems serious. This particular bug causes serious problems
for this user (so serious she has to use UCBmail which is happy with the
same messages). Any thoughts? Has anyone else had a similar problem? 

Mike

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Mike Roch, Computer Services Centre,                          Tel: 0734 318430
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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 14:09:44 -0700 (PDT)

Hi Mike -

     This sounds like a bug that was already fixed, but without sample data
that exercises the bug there is no way to know for sure.  I'm sorry that you
are having problems.  As soon as we know what's wrong, we'll be able to advise
you on how to fix it.

     We're presently working on a major new release (not a maintenance release
as 3.07 was), and we do want to make sure that all known bugs are fixed in it.
We tried to do that for 3.07, but perhaps we missed one.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1993 11:09:46 -0700 (PDT)

Mike, 
To add to what Mark said, you might want to try 3.07, as it looks like 
you are still using 3.05, and there were definitely some fixes for this 
class of problem in 3.07.

-teg