Subject: SUDDENLY pine won't mail more than 25 people?????

From: [email-masked] (Rex Wockner)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 21:27:55 GMT

As of yesterday (but never before), when I put more than 25 addresses
(from one of my pine distribution lists) into a To:, Cc: or Bcc: header of
pine, I get an error message of "bus error" or "memory fault" right after
the "sending message" notation but before the "message sent" notation --
and the message is, in fact, *not* being sent. Please advise. 

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From: [email-masked] (Doug Brenner)
Date: 5 Mar 95 19:44:49

We started seeing a similar problem on one our machines since we upgraded to
sendmail 8.6.10.  Our machine is a RS/6000 running AIX 3.2.5.  We are running
Pine 3.91.

I'm guessing that there is a buffer overrun in the new sendmail that is
happening under AIX.  (I haven't seen anyone in comp.mail.sendmail report
similar problems, so this is only a guess.)

Until we can track down the cause, we have been advising people to set their
smtp-server variable to one of our SMTP machines.  This seems to avoid the
problem for now.

Since the exact cause of this problem may be specific to your site, you
should probably contact your local support staff for more information.

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Jason Haar)
Date: 9 Mar 1995 10:09:25 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] wrote:

: I'm guessing that there is a buffer overrun in the new sendmail that is
: happening under AIX.  (I haven't seen anyone in comp.mail.sendmail report
: similar problems, so this is only a guess.)

If that is the cause, it isn't a general sendmail 8.6.10 problem - I just 
used pine to send to 35 addresses, and it worked fine...

Of course, it wasn't under AIX :-)

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From: [email-masked] (Rex Wockner)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:53:00 GMT

Jason Haar ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] wrote:

: : I'm guessing that there is a buffer overrun in the new sendmail that is
: : happening under AIX.  (I haven't seen anyone in comp.mail.sendmail report
: : similar problems, so this is only a guess.)

: If that is the cause, it isn't a general sendmail 8.6.10 problem - I just 
: used pine to send to 35 addresses, and it worked fine...

: Of course, it wasn't under AIX :-)

I suspect the problem is at netcom, since I dial in, use my computer as a 
dummy-terminal, and run pine on their machine(s).

What should I tell them to change back the way it was before?

Rex

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From: [email-masked] (Rex Wockner)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 08:53:00 GMT

Rex