Subject: URGENT! - Serious bug!

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:29:11 +0300 (EET DST)

Hi,

	It seems that pine has problems with big messages when they
are inserted in the mail body via ^R. The problem appeared originally
when I was sending a text with greek chars which was about 7600 chars.
The posting was in MIME format and pine encoded that in BASE64.
Unfortunately from the original message there are characters at the
end of the message which did not arrive.

	I thought that it was a problem with the encoding and,
possibly, the greek chars. However I tried to post to myself the
tech-notes.txt file from the pine3.93 distribution.  The message
that I received had many chars missing after the first 10.000 chars.
Trying to associate that with the greek chars posting I suspect that
the problem with a mail is when its size is around 10.000. So, when
I was trying to post my 7600 greek chars they probably were encoded
at a size around the problematic 10.000.

	This problem made us feel very unsafe about the fate of
our big mails. I would greatly appreciate your comments.

Thank you,

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From: Richard Gering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 16:39:54 +0100 (WET)

> at a size around the problematic 10.000.

A problem was found in Pine 3.93 that could occur when big files were
being sent on relatively slow systems. This bug would result in strings of
missing characters at seemingly random places in the raw message (it could
therefore also corrupt MIME attachments). To me, this seems to be the
problem you are having.

The problem is related to the alarm() calls that get executed to update
the progress indicator which is displayed while the message is being sent.

This problem will be fixed in the new Pine 3.94 release, which will be
available soon at your regular supplier :-)

Kind regards,

- Richard.

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