bugs in xmail

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From: Sandy Miller
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1992 20:02

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I tried to mail this to michael@berlioz.msc.com, but it bounced.
Hope the right person sees this...  Is anyone else using xmail, and
has anyone seen these or similar bugs?


I have noticed two bugs in the xmail I am running.  I am using version
1.4 built and running under X11R5.

The first one is rather minor.  When replying to mail, the subject line
is sometimes messed up, usually with extranious stuff preceeding the
Re:.

The second bug is extremely annoying.  During send or reply, while entering
the To: or Subject: fields, or after hitting Deliver, xmail quits, and
crashes xinit.  I can usually recover my message from /tmp, but this is
really a pain.

Have these bugs been reported/fixed?  Otherwise, I really like xmail,
and plan to continue using it.  This crashing problem does make it hard
to encourage others to use it, however.

-sandy

Sandra Miller
Software Engineer
Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721
(602) 621-8133
slm@cs.arizona.edu

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From: slm@cs.arizona.edu (Sandy Miller)
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