Subject: Re: pine 3.95 and qmail

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:42:15 -0800

On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, David L Miller wrote:

> On 27 Feb 1997, Jim Littlefield wrote:
> 
> > >sendsig: can't grow stack, pid xxxxx, proc pine
> > >Illegal instruction
> > >
> > >This does _not_ affect incoming mail, which is working properly.  Also,
> > >Pine worked flawlessly when I was running sendmail thru v8.8.5
> 
> The above message is not actually coming from Pine.  Normally, Pine
> invokes "/usr/lib/sendmail -bs -odb -oem" and interactively negotiates
> sending the mail via an SMTP exchange.  This allows Pine to negotiate
> ESMTP options, such as 8BITMIME.  
> 
> It would appear that Qmail's sendmail emulator is unable to handle the
> exchange with Pine and is crashing with a stack overflow. 

It has been pointed out that my analysis was faulty and that Pine does
indeed go into an infinite recursion under the above conditions.  This
bug will be fixed in Pine 4.00.

I'm sorry if this has caused any unnecessary confusion.

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