SCO MAIL

[Dave Hammond]

In article <6073 at ozdaltx.UUCP> root at ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
>Anytime, an extreamly long To path is passed to mail (from a news
>article), the C.xxx file always gets bunged with the wrong address for
>the system that polls us.
>
>-rw-rw-rw-   1 uucp     uucp         108 Apr  5 12:41 C.a!babbaA6745
>                                 should read     ==>  C.micA6745
>
>To: mic!letni!texsun!newstop!sun-barr!apple!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!\
>uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!uvaarpa!babbage!watt.acc.Virginia.EDU!jeg7e
                                          ^^^^^^^

Perhaps sco's mailer maintains a small, automatic array for some portion
of the path resolution code, does not check for overflow, and the
overflow clobbers some other portion of the stack.

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Dave Hammond
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