[17345] in Athena Bugs
Re: pop/mh bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Nov 3 16:26:29 1999
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To: biomorph@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Nov 1999 15:50:58 EST."
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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 16:26:06 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Hi. Another user ran into the same problem and did have a core file,
so we've fixed the core dump in inc for the next full release.
It remains the case that inc will go ahead and delete the transaction
on the pop server in certain failure cases like this one, which is
very bad, and that it can leave malformatted mail messages in your
inbox, which is not quite as bad. The nmh code is terribly written
and thus hard to change with any degree of confidence, but we'll see
if we can fix that.
