large mail messages
utzoo!henry
utzoo!henry
Fri Aug 14 12:54:35 AEST 1981
The V7 mail program screws up badly if a mail message (including postmark)
is larger than 32768 characters: it loses the mail and appends a couple
of bytes of garbage to the mailbox. Such large mail messages seldom occur
in intrasystem traffic but are not unheard-of when mailing files across
the network. The problem is that the byte counter in copylet() is an int.
The fix is trivial: in about line 329, change the declaration of k from
int to long.
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