Subject: Pine crashes on long CC list

From: Joshua Hosseinoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 03:40:39 -0400 (EDT)

It came time for student government elections here this year, and one of 
the candidates got it into his head what a wonderful idea it would be to 
mail everyone with his campaign manifesto.  Unfortunately all he did was 
put all the user names on the to line, so the first person who responded 
to it also chose to respond to all recipients which put that long list of 
names (over 200) on the CC line.  Now any time someone who has that 
message in his inbox goes into Pine, pine will immediately abort and core 
dump.  We're running 3.91a on AIX 3.2 RS6k if that helps.  

Obviously pine can't be expected to handle messages with unlimited 
lengths of Header fields, but it shouldn't core dump just by running 
pine.  As it stands we had to go into each user's mail box using mailx 
and delete it in there which most users don't know how to do.
I can send a sample of the message if it helps.

Joshua Hosseinoff
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Ananda M. Kar)
Date: 11 Apr 1995 13:06:26 -0500

[ [email-masked] (Joshua Hosseinoff) wrote the following on "comp.mail.pine": ]

-> names (over 200) on the CC line.  Now any time someone who has that 
-> message in his inbox goes into Pine, pine will immediately abort and core 
-> dump.  We're running 3.91a on AIX 3.2 RS6k if that helps.  

  The problem is because the system is running BSD Sendmail v8.6.10.
  You can ask your sys-admins to upgrade to 8.6.11 oe 8.6.12, I believe this problem 
  will be solved once it's done. Meanwhile configure Pine to use an SMTP-server, 
  rather than passing your mail to sendmail directly. This bug was generated
  when sendmail was patched to plug a security hole.

  Here's how you can configure PINE

  1. Goto the main menu by pressing "M".

  2. Choose "S" for SetUp.

  3. Type "C" for "Config".

  4. Bring down the highlighting bar to the "SMTP server" line and
     add the following entry so the line looks like this:

     smtp-server            = mail.yu1.yu.edu

  Make sure the name of your SMTP server is correct, the above is only
  a guess.

  This will hopefully solve your problem.

  Ananda

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