Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What exactly is it supposed to read from stdin?

An email in RFC-(2)822 format, preceded by a valid 
envelope. If the envelope line is absent, mail.local will generate it
using the recipient user name and current date.
 
> I am asking because I managed to segfault mail.local, even though I'm
> probably feeding it with invalid data. :-) For your info, it happens
> when the first line is "From - " and the backtrace is:

It is invalid, indeed. Although when I tried to reproduce it, mail.local
happily feeded this garbage into my mailbox.  So, coredumping seems to be
the preferred behavior in this case.

> Thanks again for the patch, tell me if you plan to apply it to main
> branch, so that I do further testing.

Since this adds new features without harming the basic functionality, I
do not see any objections to applying it to CVS.

Regards,
Sergey


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