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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NNTPD hates Message-IDs with TWO '@'s in them.  (BIG log file attached to this posting)
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.043555.20773@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 04:35:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun9.232828.17956@europa.asd.contel.com> <5930@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun10.164931.21555@europa.asd.contel.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun10.164931.21555@europa.asd.contel.com> enger@seka.scc.com writes:
>NNTPD correctly looks for the LAST '@' in the string, and lower-cases 
>what is after it, etc.  This looks like good behavior.  
>I could not spot any string variables which were ripe to overflow, etc.   
>Any ideas why it doesn't work right?

Probably nntpd and dbz are in disagreement on the case mapping.  This sort
of problem is why dbz provides interfaces (dbzfetch and dbzstore) which do
*all* the case mapping internally, so the client never has to worry about
how to do it.  Nntpd with CNEWS defined really ought to be using those,
not the old dbm interface.
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"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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