Re: mail

[Ian A Murdock <imurdock@shell.portal.com>]

Michael B. Taylor writes:
> 
> This may be my own ignorance, but..
> 
> It seems as if the Debian .91 distribution mail program is buggy. I have
> found that if any user on my system gets more than 3 e-mails, the program
> core dumps when they try to quit from the mail program after reading said
> messages. This leaves a lock file which appears to be removable only by the
> root.

This is a confirmed bug.  I am looking into it.  I suspect that it has
something to do with libc 4.5.8 (the same source worked fine compiled
with 4.4.4).  I just grabbed 4.5.19; we'll see what happens with this
version.

Ian