Messages with very long envelope "From" lines break scan(1). This behavior happens with nmh 1.3 and 1.2.
These messages are typically from mailing lists (Yahoo groups, in particular). The "Subject" field in the scan listing is displayed as just an asterisk (*). When I run scan, I get errors like: ----------------------------------------------------------------- scan: field name "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]" exceeds 127 bytes ??Format error (message 1764) in component 1 1764+ 10/17* scan: field name "From [EMAIL PROTECTED]" exceeds 127 bytes ??Format error (message 1765) in component 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- The warning comes from sbr/m_getfld.c, which uses the value of NAMESZ (set to 128 in h/mh.h). I've increased NAMESZ to 192, which fixes scan(1), and nothing seems to have blown up...but I'd appreciate some guidance on whether this is the correct solution and if there are unforeseen side-effects. Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
