[4774] in Athena Bugs
/usr/ucb/mail cannot handle large aliases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@crl.dec.com)
Mon Apr 16 13:14:17 1990
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 90 13:11:41 EDT
From: geer@crl.dec.com
To: bugs@crl.dec.com
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
WHAT'S WRONG
Putting large mailing lists into one's ~/.mailrc file is
more than /usr/ucb/mail can handle:
thames% mail max@osf.org
grow failed sp >= USRSTACK-ctob(u.u_ssize) 0x7ffff000 >= 0x7fffd000
ENVIRONMENT
Ultrix 3.1 on PMAX
REPEAT BY
Make yourself a big ~/.mailrc and shoot. A single alias with
135 full domain names does it for me, but I haven't titrated
that down to whatever the minumum is.
DISCUSSION
Not very defensive programming!
--dan
