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Re: New user's questions re: local mail delivery



On Fri, 26 Feb 1993 folta@cs.UMD.EDU wrote:
> A hearty amen to your suggestion about illegal header warnings!

This reminds me...

Has anyone else had trouble with the zmailer 2.2 router dying a horrible
death when fed header address lines with unquoted "."s in the comment? 
Every time one of these finds it's way here, the router logs a bogus
message about saving an external message claiming local origin and then
commits some horrible memory access violation which causes it to get an
memory fault. 

I know unquoted "."s in comments are a no-no, but zmailer handles other
RFC-822 violations much better than this.  :-)

I thought I'd see if anybody else is seeing it before I try to track it
down (won't be easy - the fault appears to happen somewhere in the zsh
interpreter).  BTW, this happened with the previos version of zmailer too
- my primary motivation for upgrading to the new version. 

-Andy

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