• Mailx Seg Fault from Outlook

    From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.co on Wed Aug 11 10:55:32 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    On 8/11/21 10:50 AM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
    Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"

    :-(

    looks like mime without a start-mime header

    I've run into something that might be described that way form Microsoft
    email programs a handful of times over the last few years.

    I found that the associated headers that I would expect to be part of
    the mime separator either were completely absent /or/ they were encoded
    as part of the base64 encoded blob. (I don't remember which it was specifically.)

    Any way to read the message:

    I was able to manually decode the base64 blob and access things correctly.

    This seems like a standards violation to me. But it's not happened
    often enough for me to find, chase, much less tilt at that particular
    Microsoft windmill.



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  • From vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.co@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 11 16:50:30 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"

    looks like mime without a start-mime header

    Any way to read the message:


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  • From vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.co@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 12 04:21:59 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    In <sf0vi9$vcd$1@tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net> by Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> on Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:55:32 we perused:
    *+-On 8/11/21 10:50 AM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
    Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"

    *+-:-(

    looks like mime without a start-mime header

    *+-I've run into something that might be described that way form Microsoft *+-email programs a handful of times over the last few years.

    *+-I found that the associated headers that I would expect to be part of
    *+-the mime separator either were completely absent /or/ they were encoded *+-as part of the base64 encoded blob. (I don't remember which it was *+-specifically.)

    Any way to read the message:

    *+-I was able to manually decode the base64 blob and access things correctly.

    *+-This seems like a standards violation to me. But it's not happened
    *+-often enough for me to find, chase, much less tilt at that particular *+-Microsoft windmill.


    Many thanks


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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.co on Wed Aug 11 22:45:36 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    On 8/11/21 10:21 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
    Many thanks

    You're welcome.

    Aside: What client uses *+- as it's quote indicator?

    The User-Agent header indicates tin. I know of it but have never used
    it. Is that the default quote?



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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 12 06:17:51 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    wrote:
    Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"

    Have you tried to debug the program?
    Or at least reported the program to the mailx authors/maintainers?
    It shouldn't crash.

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to @esmtp.org on Thu Aug 12 07:09:02 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    In comp.mail.misc,
    Claus AÃ mann <INVALID_NO_CC_REMOVE_IF_YOU_DO_NOT_POST_ml+sendmail(-no-copies-please)@esmtp.org> wrote:

    Well *that's* quite an email address.

    Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"
    Have you tried to debug the program?

    Near as I can tell, no.

    Or at least reported the program to the mailx authors/maintainers?

    He hasn't even identified what version of mailx. It may well be that it
    has been fixed. I'm not afraid of mailx source, but I don't have enough information to even try to reproduce this. (I don't think anyone is
    maintaining mailx these days, just local patches from different OSes.)

    If he's using mailx from the shell prompt at Panix, there's at least
    two versions. /usr/bin/mailx is very old, /usr/local/bin/mailx is much
    newer. There are many more if he is using an alias (eg to running /u/l/b/mailx.att or /u/l/b/mailx.old or /u/l/b/nail). He could be
    using one he compiled himself or not be using it on Panix at all.

    He did complain about this in the Panix internal newsgroups, too, where
    I have also not seen a good description of the problem.

    I use mailx daily on Panix, but I compiled my own fork. I never see
    mailx seg fault.

    Elijah
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  • From Ottavio Caruso@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 12 08:22:36 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    On 12/08/2021 07:17, Claus Aßmann wrote:
    wrote:
    Several senders, universities, email blows mailx up with "segmentation fault"

    Have you tried to debug the program?
    Or at least reported the program to the mailx authors/maintainers?
    It shouldn't crash.


    Why has this been crossposted to comp.unix.shell?


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  • From Anssi Saari@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Thu Aug 12 10:21:32 2021
    XPost: comp.unix.shell

    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> writes:

    On 8/11/21 10:21 PM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
    Many thanks

    You're welcome.

    Aside: What client uses *+- as it's quote indicator?

    The User-Agent header indicates tin. I know of it but have never used
    it. Is that the default quote?

    I have a vague memory tin used something other than the almost
    ubiquitous '> ', possibly -> but not *+- by default. With a quick look
    at what I think the tin defaults are today (for version 2.4.3) tin uses
    ' like everyone else by default.

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  • From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Anssi Saari on Thu Aug 12 11:03:42 2021
    [I dropped comp.unix.shell .I went over a list of newsgroups trying to find
    something newsreaders specific but alt.comp.software.newsreaders ,
    news.software.newsreaders and alt.comp.apps.nntp seem dead.
    ]

    On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:21:32 +0300
    Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> wrote:
    Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> writes:

    Aside: What client uses *+- as it's quote indicator?

    The User-Agent header indicates tin. I know of it but have never used
    it. Is that the default quote?

    I have a vague memory tin used something other than the almost
    ubiquitous '> ', possibly -> but not *+- by default. With a quick look
    at what I think the tin defaults are today (for version 2.4.3) tin uses
    ' like everyone else by default.

    I don't use tin myself but I have seen tin many times in headers and I don't recall ever seeing an unusual method of quoting.

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Wed Aug 18 13:41:03 2021
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
    [I dropped comp.unix.shell .I went over a list of newsgroups trying to find
    something newsreaders specific but alt.comp.software.newsreaders ,
    news.software.newsreaders and alt.comp.apps.nntp seem dead.
    ]

    The newsgroup name is news.software.readers, not ...newsreaders.

    It's *the* newsgroup for newsreaders.

    And the NNTP (and News server software) group is news.software.nntp

    [...]

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  • From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Frank Slootweg on Wed Aug 18 17:05:12 2021
    On 18 Aug 2021 13:41:03 GMT
    Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
    Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
    [I dropped comp.unix.shell .I went over a list of newsgroups trying to find
    something newsreaders specific but alt.comp.software.newsreaders ,
    news.software.newsreaders and alt.comp.apps.nntp seem dead.
    ]

    The newsgroup name is news.software.readers, not ...newsreaders.

    It's *the* newsgroup for newsreaders.

    And the NNTP (and News server software) group is news.software.nntp

    Thank you , it's good to know that these exist.

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