Patch-ID# 100224-03 Keywords: mail, delivery, /bin/mail, sendmail Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1;4.1.2: program "mail" "rmail" problem in delivering mail Date: 4/Feb/92 SunOS release: 4.1.1 4.1.2 Topic: /bin/mail delivering fix BugId's fixed with this patch: 1045636 1047340 1051832 Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3, sun3x, sun4, sun4c Obsoleted by: Problem Description: Bug ID: 1051832 (08-Jan-92, -03) --------------------------------- rmail will occasionally dump core on sun when it gets bad input of a certain unknown type. running "strings" on the core file usually shows a line of the form host!host!host!host!host!... for several hundred characters. Bug ID: 1045636 --------------------------------- /bin/mail is the local delivery agent for sendmail. In some particular instance, /bin/mail parse its argument incorrectly and therefore, mail are being drop into the bit bucket... If you have users that has "f" has the second character, you might want to try the following: (substitute "af" with anyuser with "f" as second character) From any machine except mailhost: /bin/lib/sendmail -t -v <