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Date:      Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:18:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Daniel R.  Brownstone" <drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pine crashing (3.96)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403191757.11299M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980403194242.16127F-100000@ls.wustl.edu>

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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Daniel R.  Brownstone wrote:

> 
> Whenever someone receives a rather large MIME attachment in their e-mail,
> they are unable to load pine.  It says out of free space, and them dumps a
> core and quits.  Any ideas on how to stop this from happening?  (Our
> solution is to fire up elm, and delete the offending e-mail...)

Put a maximum message size limit.  Sendmail can do this in the mailer
profiles in sendmail.cf.  We have to do this for procmail, otherwise it
tries to do regexps on uuencodes and blows up.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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