Bug#543544: mailutils: 'mail' reporting input in flex scanner failed

2010-01-04 Thread Andrew Schulman 

This is a pretty obnoxious bug for me and I'd like to help solve it.  It's
probably something trivial that's causing it.

If you can make a debug package available, I can try it out with gdb to
find the problem.

Thanks,
Andrew.




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Bug#543544: mailutils: 'mail' reporting input in flex scanner failed

2009-12-15 Thread Jordi Mallach 
severity 543544 important
tags 543544 + unreproducible
thanks

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 06:31:03AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
  servo:~ 0$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mail -s test jroll...@finestructure.net
  input in flex scanner failed
 
 I also have this problem.  It's breaking system scripts that rely on 
 /usr/bin/mail, e.g. cron-apt.
 
 I also confirm that running /usr/bin/mailx instead avoids the problem.

This is weird. I can't produce this at all, running a more or less up to
date sid system.

Executing exactly the command above (changing the email address, of course)
does send email as expected. A quick grep in the sourcecode reveals that
the problem might be coming from the configuration parser. Can you post
your /etc/mail.rc or ~/.mail.rc files?

Jordi
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Bug#543544: mailutils: 'mail' reporting input in flex scanner failed

2009-12-15 Thread Andrew Schulman 
   servo:~ 0$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mail -s test
   jroll...@finestructure.net input in flex scanner failed
 
  I also have this problem.  It's breaking system scripts that rely on
  /usr/bin/mail, e.g. cron-apt.
 
  I also confirm that running /usr/bin/mailx instead avoids the problem.
 
 This is weird. I can't produce this at all, running a more or less up to
 date sid system.
 
 Executing exactly the command above (changing the email address, of
  course) does send email as expected. A quick grep in the sourcecode
  reveals that the problem might be coming from the configuration parser.
  Can you post your /etc/mail.rc or ~/.mail.rc files?

Here's /etc/mail.rc, with comments removed.  I have no .mail.rc.

set prompt= 
set indentprefix= 
set screen=20
set askcc
set dot
set save appenddeadletter
set hold
retain from to subject cc reply-to date

Thanks,
Andrew.



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Bug#543544: mailutils: 'mail' reporting input in flex scanner failed

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Schulman 
severity 543544 critical
thanks

 servo:~ 0$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mail -s test jroll...@finestructure.net
 input in flex scanner failed

I also have this problem.  It's breaking system scripts that rely on 
/usr/bin/mail, e.g. cron-apt.

I also confirm that running /usr/bin/mailx instead avoids the problem.



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Bug#543544: mailutils: 'mail' reporting input in flex scanner failed

2009-08-25 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins 
Package: mailutils
Version: 1:2.0+dfsg1-4
Severity: normal

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I'm experiencing a very strange problem with the 'mail' utility and I
have no idea what it means:

servo:~ 0$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mail -s test jroll...@finestructure.net
input in flex scanner failed
servo:~ 2$ 

What's bizarre, though, is that if it's called as 'mailx' it seems to
work:

servo:~ 2$ echo foo | /usr/bin/mailx -s test jroll...@finestructure.net
servo:~ 0$ readlink -f /usr/bin/mailx
/usr/bin/mail
servo:~ 0$ 

What could possibly be going on here?  I'm at a loss.

Thanks for the help.

jamie.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mailutils depends on:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [ma 4.69-11   lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  guile-1.8-libs 1.8.7+1-1 Main Guile libraries
ii  libc6  2.9-23GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2 1.41.3-1  common error description library
ii  libfribidi00.10.9-1  Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcrypt111.4.4-3   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgdbm3   1.8.3-6+b1GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libgmp3c2  2:4.3.1+dfsg-3Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgnutls262.8.3-1   the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0  1.6-1 library for common error values an
ii  libgsasl7  1.1-1 GNU SASL library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2   1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libidn11   1.15-1GNU Libidn library, implementation
ii  libk5crypto3   1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3  1.7dfsg~beta3-1   MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2  2.4.17-1  OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libltdl7   2.2.6a-4  A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libmailutils2  1:2.0+dfsg1-4 GNU Mail abstraction library
ii  libmysqlclient15off5.0.51a-24+lenny1 MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses55.7+20090803-1+b1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libntlm0   0.3.13-1  NTLM authentication library
ii  libpam0g   1.0.1-10  Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libreadline5   5.2-5 GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libtasn1-3 2.3-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0   7.6.q-18  Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

mailutils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailutils suggests:
pn  mailutils-mh  none (no description available)

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