#3015: Segmentation Fault on redirection operator
Comment (by P V Mathew):
{{{
Mutt wrote:
> #3015: Segmentation Fault on redirection operator
>
> Changes (by pdmef):
>
> * keywords: segmentation fault => segmentation fault, smtp
> * milestone: => 1.6
>
> Comment:
>
> > The bug has been traced to line 232,233 of smtp.c in smtp_send
function
> > {{{
> > ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "MAIL FROM:<%s>",
> > EnvFrom ? EnvFrom->mailbox : from->mailbox);
> >
> > }}}
> > It seems that from or from->mailbox may not be defined in all cases
>
> So the question is what the SMTP code should use as fallback (the
sendmail
> code
> seems to omit the '-f addr' part in that case)...
>
> Use username (or 'nobody' if user can't be determined) as mailbox and
> hostname
> (or 'localhost' if hostname can't be determined) as domain part?
>
> Since the sendmail-calling code explicetely tests for 'from' being
exactly
> one address,
> I guess it's an invalid assumption that a message always has a sender
> address? Though
>
may be... mutt should exit grace fully giving some proper error message.
segmentation fault looks terrible(well, at least to a end user!)
> I'd be interested as to when this happens (and why) since mutt should
IMHO
> always generate
> some sender for any outgoing message...
> Rocco
>
>
I tried to determine that, but the code is too complicated to me.
I will make some more attempts....
Mathew
}}}
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