Sendmail and V4.1
Frederick M. Avolio
avolio at decuac.dec.com
Sat Jan 5 15:35:19 AEST 1991
There is a bug in the /usr/ucb/mail program with ULTRIX 4.0 (at least --
I don't know if it is fixed with 4.1). There is a buffer being used to
hold an addressee's hostname to check against your own. Anyway, the
buffer is too short for your hostname (and I assume other hostnames as
well). If you have sources, patch optim.c -- fakepath needs to be longer
than 20. (80 is probably big enough :-). )
I've sent a note along about it to the folks who maintain it. You might
check to see if there is a patch available as this will bit anyone
who's hostname.domain is longer than 20 characters.
Fred
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