/bin/rmail bug

[jaap at haring.UUCP]

<Is this a bug fix?:>

  Problem:
	
	>From @abc-de-fg.arpa:@hij-klm-nopqr:use...
    makes /bin/rmail dumps core. (Core???:-))

  Solution:
	Increase an array size (ufrom) from 64 to, let's say, BUFSIZE.

This is not a flame to the Piet's article. I guess, that increasing
64 to BUFSIZE will solve some problems. I just can not ignore
remembering all the other bug fixes to the net software (and UNIX software
in general). A lot of the fixes are arbitrary. Just raise a constant
until something else breaks (and maybe a more interesting problem pops
up, like parsing the "``quoted'' From" line).

Of course /bin/rmail has never been designed, hacked or coded to do the
job it is suppose to handle now. I just cannot help wondering whether the
next `news release' (3.0.0?) will still inspire to `Bug Fixes' like
above mentioned.

	jaap (mcvax!jaap)