Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 23:10:32 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber), rhh@ct.picker.com, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Er... how long Message-ID: <292.833407832@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 May 1996 11:09:53 PDT." <199605291809.LAA13861@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote in message ID <199605291809.LAA13861@phaeton.artisoft.com>: > > For the record, if you use elm's filter, one day you *will* loose > > mail. This is not a matter of if, but when. This is a platform > > independent "feature", not a quirk in the freebsd version. Do > > the right thing and use procmail. Unfortunately, the syntax of > > procmail rules file are a little obtuse when compared to filter > > but I guess it makes for faster parsing. > What race condition do you believe exists such that this will > happen? It's not a race condition, it's a programming bogon. If the subject line is beyond a certain length the elm filter coredumps. I've seen this happen when I've made large commits (which produced a long `Subject:' line) before cvs-commiters got an ``owner'' which gets the mail. It is a good way of testing who uses the elm filter program :-) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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