[9525] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.4G: rmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jun 30 17:16:07 1992
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 92 17:15:35 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: Christopher Tung <rui@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9523]
[9523] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Tung) Athena Bugs 06/29/92 11:53 (24 lines)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 92 11:53:48 EDT
From: Christopher Tung <rui@Athena.MIT.EDU>
What were you trying to do?
use rmail
What's wrong:
I get "segmentation violation" when I try to use it.
What should have happened:
It should have allowed me to at least add another line.
Instead, I just got an error when hitting the carriege return.
While it is true that you should never get a "Segmentation violation"
when running a program, it is NOT true that rmail "should have allowed
[you] to... add another line," because you are using the program in a
manner in which it is not intended to be used.
If you wish to send mail in this way, you should use "mhmail rui",
"/bin/mail rui", or "/usr/ucb/mail rui". You should not use rmail for
this. See rmail(1), which indicates that the program expects input
in a specific format and that it "is explicitly designed for use with
uucp and sendmail;" in other words, you should not be invoking it from
the command line.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
