> Why would a message on this list cause a segmentation fault in
> fetchpop ? For both the message and the reply, the mailer fetch
> program kept causing the fetch program to seg fault. What a major
> pain in the butt. Did anyone else have this problem, and if so, do
> you know why ?
I don't know what caused it in your case, but I once received an email
with over 150 Megs of attachments that caused massive segfaults on one
system I use. The basic problem was that the system only had 40 Megs
of RAM and 96 Megs of swap available, so as soon as I tried to read
the said email...
Before anybody asks, the said system now enforces a cutoff of 10 Megs
per email, bouncing anything larger. In addition, it now has 128 Megs
of RAM and 192 Megs of swap, so would probably be sound nowadays...
For those interested, it was running RH 4.1 with kernel 2.0.33 at the
time...
Best wishes from Riley.
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