Subject: Re: Pine 3.96 STILL does not with with Digital UNIX (OSF/1)

From: "Brian O'Neill" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 13:02:24 -0500

Thanks to David Miller, the problem appears to be sendmail dumping core,
causing pine to go into and endless loop and dump core (the endless loop
problem he reports will be fixed in 4.0). Now, to find out why sendmail
is dying...

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:54:19 -0800 (PST)

Sendmail doesn't necessarily have to be dumping core for this to happen.
If it doesn't do the -bs option this will happen, even if it prints a nice
error message and exits cleanly. It should be easy to work around this
problem by setting pine's smtp-server to localhost or to some other host
running an smtp server. In those cases sendmail does not get called
directly.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:22:30 +0000

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brian O'Neill wrote:

> OK, a while back I reported that pine 3.95 dumps core due to a stack
> overflow when attempting to send a message [...]
> It is currently happening under 4.0A and 4.0B, and happened under 3.2C
> as well.

I have been using pine heavily for quite some time on OSF1/3.2 and
so have a lot of users here.  I haven't seen this problem at all.

-j

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