Stupid mailer of the week award

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From: Brian Kantor
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 17:27

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I nominate this one as stupid mailer behaviour of the week:

nix%muppet.decnet@consrt.rok.com... Connecting to consrt.rok.com
(INTERNET)...
220 consrt.rok.com SMTP Service (4.33) Ready.
>>> HELO ucsd.edu
250 consrt.rok.com , glad to meet you ucsd.edu.
>>> MAIL From:<info-hams-relay@ucsd.edu>
250 OK
>>> RCPT To:<nix%muppet.decnet@consrt.rok.com>
250 Recipient accepted.
>>> DATA
354 Enter Mail, end by a line with only '.'
>>> .
%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=04, virtual
address=00000000, PC=00014549, PSL=03C00004%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access
violation, reason mask=04, virtual address=00000000, PC=00014549,
PSL=03C00004%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump
follows%TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic stack dump followsmodule name
routine name                     line       rel PC    abs PC
module name     routine name                     line       rel PC
abs PC
VFORKASM        VFORK                                      000003C0
00014549VFORKASM        VFORK
000003C0  00014549
   0000BD74  0000BD74
      0000BD74  0000BD74
         0000170E  0000170E
            0000170E  0000170E
               000033DA  000033DA
                  000033DA  000033DA
                     00002DAF  00002DAF
                        00002DAF  00002DAF
                           00000B46  00000B46
                              00000B46  00000B46
                                     00000950  00000950
                                        00000388  00000388
                                           00000388  00000388
                                              00013892  00013892
                                                 00013892  00013892CRT0
         $$$START                                   00000028
0000690BCRT0            $$$START                



With sendmail 5.64, this causes the mail transport agent to dump core
and, since it failed to record delivery, resend the message to all the
other recipients repeatedly.

So this is really TWO nominations for the price of one: to Rockwell, for
having an out of control mailer, and to sendmail 5.64 for not doing the
graceful thing when presented with gales of garbage.

And it's only Monday morning.  Sigh.
	- Brian

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!brian
From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Stupid mailer of the week award
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Date: 1 Oct 90 17:27:03 GMT
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