burst bug?

This stuff popped up on the mh news group. Anybod know how it 
compares to nmh -head and -rc1.1?

/A


"Bill Wohler" <wohler(_at_)newt(_dot_)com> wrote in message 
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> Jym Dyer <jym(_at_)econet(_dot_)org> writes:
> > > mailman is producing "--__--__--" as a message delimiter, and
> > > burst is looking for "-------".  i didn't try to mentally run 
> > > the rfc934 state machine on that to see if it's legit or not.
> >
> > =v= Well swat my hind, the string is hardcoded into burst.c:
> >
> > static char delim3[] = "-------";
> >
> > Whereas RFC934 lets anything that starts with "-" but not with
> > "- " serve as a separator.
>
>   Thanks for digging into that. Turns out that MH has the bug, not
>   mailman.
>
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