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From: sammut@durian.citr.uq.oz.au (David Sammut)
Subject: Sendmail dumps core during transaction
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:08:36 GMT


I am running Sendmail 5.65 with IDA on a VaxStation II (fairly slow
but it can handle the mail load).  I am having a problem where sendmail
regularly core dumps with a segmentation fault directly after processing
a mail message.  It cores after the mail transaction has been processed
but before the mail message has been taken out of the queue.  This causes
multiple transmissions of the same message until I delete the message from
the queue manually.  This problem only seems to occur when the number of
recipients is 45 or more.

I am having trouble attacking the problem due to the slowness of the machine.
Is this a known bug? Is there a patch somewhere?  Any help would be
appreciated.



Thanks

David Sammut
sammut@citr.uq.oz.au

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: problems with ultrix sendmail: i refuse to talk to myself
Keywords: sendamil, ultrix, MX
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:42:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.084352.29295@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> gaissmai@xwini.rz.uni-ulm.de (Karl Gaissmaier) writes:

>MikroVax-3100
>ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 85)
>Sendmail-5.57
>
>This machine (netway.rz.uni-ulm.de) is our domain name server and MX-Server 
>for various other machines. netway is also our backup MailExchanger for 
>mathematik.uni-ulm.de, see below:

>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 0, mail exchanger = laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de
>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 5, mail exchanger = titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de
>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 100, mail exchanger = netway.rz.uni-ulm.de
>  mathematik.uni-ulm.de   preference = 200, mail exchanger = noc.belwue.de

>in the case, that both MX-Servers laborix.mathematik.uni-ulm.de and
>titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de are down at the same time, all mails
>for mathematik.uni-ulm.de are sent to netway.rz.uni-ulm.de.
>
>The netway now doesn't queue the mails until the more precedenced
>MX_Servers laborix or titania are online, netway tries to connect
>with itself and in order to prevent loops, netway can only say:
>	i refuse to talk to myself

You need to make sure that $w is defined to be 'netway.rz.uni-ulm.de'

If sendmail does not automatically define it this way try adding a
line

	Dwnetway.rz.uni-ulm.de

to your configuration.  You may then have to make some other changes
to avoid double domains.

[Explanation:  sendmail check an MX record against $w.  If they are equal
it discards this MX record and any record of worse preference.  Thus if
the two main hosts are down it should now queue the mail rather than
send to itself].

>but thats not my only problem with sendmail on ultrix.
>We have the following wildcard-MX-RR's:

The best solution here is to not use wildcard MX records.  Instead explicitely
list MX records for every valid name.  Then anything invalid will be
bounced with 'host unknown'.  Best of all, the bouncing will often be
done at the origination site, so the mail never reaches you.

If you retain the wildcard MXs, the correct definition of $w, as
described above, will help somewhat.  The mail will still bounce, but there
will be no attempt to connect to itself.  Instead you will probably get
a message "configuration error - host not recognized as local".

Xref: sparky comp.mail.sendmail:2980 comp.sys.hp:14023
From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: uucp reflector?
Date: 20 Dec 92 16:32:45 GMT
Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com
In-reply-to: jrh@jrh.uucp's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:56:02 GMT

> Yup.  Send mail to "closest_neighbor!your_system!your_id" to test your mail.
>                   --jrh

Just don't sent it through rutgers..
--
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail queueing with old recipient information
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:21:51 GMT
Organization: Northern Illinois University

In article <1gjl83INN9qc@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:

>The problem is that the sendmail queue contains the path name to the
>program in the R field of the qf file. When it gets around to the next
>delivery attempt, it 1) doesn't bother to look up aliases or .forward
>files or etc. for the intended recipient (minor) and 2) forgets that it
>is supposed to setuid before running that program. The latter error
>means that my perl script is being run as daemon, and it has no access
>to write to any of my files.

>               Is there a way to tell sendmail to keep track of the
>recipient and do the setuid call it should be doing?

Yes.  Get a newer version of sendmail.  Berkeley fixed that problem
in 5.64.
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: pete@wvus.org (Pete Gregory)
Subject: sendmail.cf wanted
Organization: World Vision U.S.
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 00:13:07 GMT

Hi - I'm looking for a sendmail.cf that does the following:

UUCP to a known set of machines (five in all).
SMTP to a known set of machines (five in all).
SMTP to a smarthost.

environment:

Sequent PTX (nothing different that I can see).
not an internet site.
no name server.

thanks...
-- 

Pete Gregory       |  Internet: pete@wvus.org
UNIX SA            |  Bangpath: ames!elroy!wvus!pete
World Vision U.S.  |  Slowpath: 919 W. Huntington Dr., Monrovia, CA 91016
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene)
Subject: QUESTION: Sendmail configuration on NeXT
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:14:28 GMT
Organization: Association of Racing Commissioners International, Inc.

My host is connected to our local University through a UUCP connection.  I am
running NeXTSTEP 3.0 on a NeXTCube with sendmail version NX5.67cA.  A domain
was recently created for this connection which has been added to the 
sendmail.cf file.  

Now, I need my "From: " lines to be rewritten in the form user@domain_name
(user@kynug.org).  Could someone pour some help me way in solving this,
thanks.


Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: zchi@athena.mit.edu (Zhihang Chi)
Subject: Name configuration error
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:06:01 GMT

Hello,

We are having trouble with sendmail on our Sun.  If I define the relay
host to be mailhost, here's what happens:

> cw@herman.mit.edu... Connecting to mailhost via ether...
> cw@herman.mit.edu... Host unknown
> Saving message in /home/usr/zchi/dead.letter
> /home/usr/zchi/dead.letter... Sent

Now if I define the relay host to be localhost, here's what happens:

> cw@herman.mit.edu... Connecting to localhost via ether...
> Trying 127.0.0.1...  connected.
> 220 Hara.MIT.EDU Sendmail 4.1/SMI-4.1 ready at Tue, 15 Dec 92 01:55:19 EST
> >>> HELO Hara.MIT.EDU
> 553 Hara.MIT.EDU host name configuration error
> >>> QUIT
> 221 Hara.MIT.EDU closing connection
> cw@herman.mit.edu... Service unavailable
> Saving message in /home/usr/zchi/dead.letter
> /home/usr/zchi/dead.letter... Sent

What goes wrong?  How do I go about fixing the errors?

Thanks!

--Zhihang Chi
  zchi@Athena.MIT.EDU
From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Underscores and dots
Date: 11 Dec 1992 21:11:40 GMT
Organization: Not an official spokesperson for Ford Motor Company
Reply-To: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ope001.iao.ford.com

In article <1992Dec11.151830.16241@med.umich.edu> jaynes@med.umich.edu
(William Jaynes) writes:

:I am currently running Sendmail 5.65b/IDA-1.4.3.  I wonder if there is a
:relatively easy change that I can make to some rule set in sendmail.cf in
:order to change underscores to dots on the lefthand side of the @ sign.

I wouldn't go with a ruleset in this case -- it would be dangerous if
you wanted to mail someone with an "_" in their name.

Rewriting seems like a BAD idea.

						...Mike

-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Monday, 14 Dec 1992 10:20:25 +01
From: Herman Van Uytven <SYSTHVU@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail+ida, domaintables and bitnet

Hello,

We want to have for the whole university E-mail addresses of
the form Name.Surname@org.kuleuven.ac.be.

With some help from our AIX expert for the Makefiles, and after
some try and error I got a good m4 file (using generics for
From:, To: and MAIL FROM, and using xaliases for RCPT TO:).

The last 'sendmail' problem I want to solve is to map our BITNET adresses
(we have two bitnet hosts on campus, blekul11 and blekul21) to
their corresponding domain addresses, so that we don't have to put
all that BITNET stuff into the xaliases file.

After reading the documentation I thought that something like

cc1.kuleuven.ac.be       BLEKUL11 BLEKUL11.BITNET
cc2.kuleuven.ac.be       BLEKUL21 BLEKUL21.BITNET

in domaintable would do the job.

This didn't work, I got From lines like  admin%blekul11.bitnet@bitnet.bitnet..
and the like.

After looking at other DBM tables, I tried in domaintable

blekul11.bitnet    cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
blekul11           cc1.kuleuven.ac.be
blekul21.bitnet    cc2.kuleuven.ac.be
blekul21           cc2.kuleuven.ac.be

This seems to work for the header From: line, but not for the
envelope MAIL FROM: line.

Any idea how to change the bitnet addresses also in the envelope ?

Thanks,

-Herman-
From: avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: "Standard" Behavior of $[ $] Syntax (?)
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:48:42 GMT
Reply-To: avolio@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Dec18.013900.16700@cfctech.cfc.com> kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>Quick and simple question: on most sendmails which I've (reluctantly) 
>configured, the $[ $] syntax will transform a partially-qualified name into 
>an FQDN, e.g.
>
>foo.bar -> foo.bar.blech.com
>
>Is this behavior universal enough to be considered part of the de facto
>sendmail "standard"? I have an implementation of sendmail, from a vendor who 
>shall remain nameless, where the $[ $] syntax will ONLY translate CNAMEs into 
>their canonical counterparts; it passes partially-qualified names through
>untouched. This is highly inconvenient, but, not being a sendmail expert, I'm 
>unsure whether to actually call it "broken"... 

I have also seen both behaviors (and am pretty sure I know who the
unnamed vendor is).  The behavior is that it rewrites the address only
for a CNAME (or if the thing between the $[ and $] is an IP address,
e.g. 192.5.214.10)

What you want to do is use the DNS's support for partially qualified
names, or "relative addresses", in sending mail.  This is NOT a good
thing to do. There are three main reasons, keeping in mind that using
a relative address is habit-forming:

1. Relative addresses are.. well... relative.  They change with
location.  If you are sitting on host foo.det.dec.com and send mail to
user@gatekeeper it might go to "user" on "gatekeeper.dec.com" because
the resolver tried "gatekeeper.det.dec.com" (gatekeeper.LOCALDOMAIN)
and then tried one level up, and found it.  But move to Maryland and
be on foo.dco.dec.com and send the same mail and it might go to "user"
on "gatekeeper.dco.dec.com" -- a different user.

2. Relative addresses may become ambiguous.  User 1 is
"mary@alpha.cs.umd.edu" and user 2 is "joe@beta.ee.umd.edu".  Joe
sends mail to mary as: "mary@alpha.cs" and it works.  But if someone
on "beta.ee.umd.edu" wants to send mail to a user on a system in
Czechoslovakia (.cs) he is out of luck.  There are numerous ways
around this, but all require knowledge or how the MTA is going to act
and this changes site to site.

3. Relative addressing does not carry to the top-level.  Logically, I
(avolio@tis.com) should be able to send mail to a friend Allen
(allen@det.dec.com) to "allen@det.dec" seeing as how we both share the
same top-level (.com).  This does not work.

One should configure sendmail to:

a. rewrite any address $*@$- to tack on the local domain (the only
definition possible).

b. leave everything else alone.

This means that relative addresses will work (since the DNS will do
what was dscribed above) but are discouraged.  One *could* put a
trailing dot on, as in:

R$*@$-		$1@$2.MYDOMAIN
R$*@$+		$:$1@$2.		note addding trailing blank

which would disallow relative addresses (treating every addresses as
rooted) but I'd chose not to bother.

Fred
From: e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail queueing with old recipient information
Date: 15 Dec 92 15:50:38 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).

In article <1gjl83INN9qc@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>, stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
> The problem is that the sendmail queue contains the path name to the
> program in the R field of the qf file. When it gets around to the next
> delivery attempt,
>                                                      2) forgets that it
> is supposed to setuid before running that program. The latter error
> means that my perl script is being run as daemon, and it has no access
> to write to any of my files.
> The queue is local to the system, SunOS 4.0.3 on a Sun 3, perl 4pl19.

In case you are using the SUN sendmail as distributed: it is based
on an old version of sendmail, which does not save the necessary
user information in case the recipients are files or programs.

You need 5.65 [+IDA] or up.

The associated user name is then saved in the qf* file in a line
that starts with 'Cusername' just before the 'Rrecipient' line.
During queue runs, sendmail can now reset its uid appropriately.

Eric Wassenaar
-- 
Organization: NIKHEF-H, National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics
Address: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 592 5012, Home: +31 20 6909449, Telefax: +31 20 592 5155
Internet: e07@nikhef.nl
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: "Standard" Behavior of $[ $] Syntax (?)
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:13:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.013900.16700@cfctech.cfc.com> kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>Quick and simple question: on most sendmails which I've (reluctantly) 
>configured, the $[ $] syntax will transform a partially-qualified name into 
>an FQDN, e.g.
>
>foo.bar -> foo.bar.blech.com

Many sendmails will not do this.

>Is this behavior universal enough to be considered part of the de facto
>sendmail "standard"? I have an implementation of sendmail, from a vendor who 
>shall remain nameless, where the $[ $] syntax will ONLY translate CNAMEs into 
>their canonical counterparts; it passes partially-qualified names through
>untouched. This is highly inconvenient, but, not being a sendmail expert, I'm 
>unsure whether to actually call it "broken"... 

The behavior of standard BSD code depends on whether NO_WILDCARD_MX is
defined at compile time.  If it is not defined, only CNAMES are used in
the $[ .. $].  No sensible vendor would define NO_WILDCARD_MX, since
the vendor cannot assume that none of his customers will have wildcards
defined.

>P.S. Yes, both RES_DNSRCH & RES_DEFNAMES are set by default in my resolver 
>     library. Nothing on the machine, other than sendmail, seems to be having 
>     a problem with partially-qualified names.

Sendmail is different from other networking software.  Firstly, your
other software does not have to deal with dns wildcards which always
qualify any old garbage in your local domain.  Secondly partially
qualified names are inherently ambiguous, which is not a problem for
interactive commands like 'telnet' or 'ftp' where the user can see the
problem and correct it.  But the ambiguity is a big problem for
non-interactive software, such as mail transfers.

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: yoda@next2.cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther)
Subject: How to delete hostnames in outgoing mail ?
Reply-To: yoda@next2.cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther)
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:51:55 GMT

Hello,

I've tried this for ages, and I keep getting wrong results,
so I simply dont know what to do anymore.

What I want to do is, to erase the hostname in the From: field
of every outgoing mail.

For example, I am sitting an the machine alderaan in the domain
cis.uni-muenchen.de, and when I'm sending mail to the world,
my From: line looks like this:	yoda@alderaan.cis.uni-muenchen.de
but I woant it to look like:	yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de

Anybody knows how to do this ?

Thanks,
Yoda
--
yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de
Xref: sparky comp.mail.sendmail:2982 comp.mail.uucp:2304
From: devadoss@delphi.pilgrim.umass.edu (John deVadoss)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Code for parsing spooled mail messages
Date: 13 Dec 92 22:31:06 GMT
Reply-To: devadoss@cs.umass.edu
Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail


Folks - I am looking for code that could parse mail messages.
I need this in order to write a mail-reader. 
Is is available in some ftp site? Thanks for your time.

john
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: I refuse to talk to myself
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:13:04 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.040443.10255@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA> lebaron@INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA (Gregory LeBaron) writes:
>
>inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca.  IN MX 10 velcro.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca.
>*.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca. IN MX 10 velcro.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca.
>
>Mail to name@inrs-telecom... gets to velcro correctly but then velcro
>complains that it won't talk to itself. How do people normally handle
>such situations?

You must modify ruleset 0 of sendmail.cf so that mail to
'user@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca' is recognized as local.  That is, when
you test with 'sendmail -bt', ruleset 0 should select the local mailer
for such an address.

A somewhat crude approach might be to insert a rule near the top of
ruleset 0

	R$*<@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca>$*		$:$1<@$w>$2

>If you can offer any advice, mail me at
>lebaron@video.inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca or
>lebaron@aldebaran.ee.mcgill.ca (which might work)
>or post 

I'm posting, because my tests suggest that the first address will
probably bounce with "I refuse to talk to myself".

Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Recognizing multiple host names?
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:05:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.214020.5831@noao.edu> jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis) writes:
>I'm trying to run sendmail 5.65 on a Sun 3, 4.1.1_U1 machine whose hostname
>is coral.kpno.noao.edu.  The nameservers for noao.edu, however, treat the
>machine at that IP address as 'coral.tuc.noao.edu', and at least for now
>there's nothing I can do about that.  But when I try to send mail to
>'user@coral', or 'user@coral.kpno.noao.edu', I get the following error:
>
>>>> HELO coral.tuc.noao.edu
><<< 553 Local configuration error, hostname not recognized as local
>
>(which isn't surprising).  Now is there a way to tell sendmail to recognize
>coral.tuc.noao.edu as a valid local hostname, as well as the 'real' hostname
>coral.kpno.noao.edu?  I tried adding a
>
>Cwcoral.kpno.noao.edu coral.tuc.noao.edu

In standard sendmail, 'Cw' only works for single tokens.  It does not
work for multi-token names.

Somewhere in ruleset 0 you will probably need an explicit rule to send
this mail to the local mailer.  Something like

	R$+<@coral.tuc.noao.edu>	$#local $:$1

although you might want something to also strip routing through
this host name.
From: elias@mvax.uakom.cs
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: mailing list
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:34:02 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: Institute of Automation and Communication

Hi,

I have sendmail 5.65+IDA 1.4.4 on sunos 4.1.2.
Could you advice me please how to set up a mailing list ?

Thanks a lot,

Lubos.Elias@uakom.cs





Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: SGI and their sendmail !
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:28:04 GMT

In article <freyder.724397542@marley> freyder@was.waii.com (Rob Freyder) writes:
>Hi,
>
>Sigh.  I just noticed something peculiar about SGI's sendmail.  It doesnt
>like delivering mail to NFS mounted mailboxes.

This is NOT a problem with sendmail.  Delivery to mailboxes is done by
the delivery agent, /bin/mail.  Your problem is that the SGI binmail
is a SysV based version which has different behavior from the SunOS
binmail with its BSD origins.

>I am in the process of building IDA for these boxes but it just bothers me
>that this doesnt work.  

I believe recent SGIs already have an IDA version, (but not an IDA config
file).
From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: "Standard" Behavior of $[ $] Syntax (?)
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:39:00 GMT
Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI

Quick and simple question: on most sendmails which I've (reluctantly) 
configured, the $[ $] syntax will transform a partially-qualified name into 
an FQDN, e.g.

foo.bar -> foo.bar.blech.com

Is this behavior universal enough to be considered part of the de facto
sendmail "standard"? I have an implementation of sendmail, from a vendor who 
shall remain nameless, where the $[ $] syntax will ONLY translate CNAMEs into 
their canonical counterparts; it passes partially-qualified names through
untouched. This is highly inconvenient, but, not being a sendmail expert, I'm 
unsure whether to actually call it "broken"... 

P.S. Yes, both RES_DNSRCH & RES_DEFNAMES are set by default in my resolver 
     library. Nothing on the machine, other than sendmail, seems to be having 
     a problem with partially-qualified names.

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From: huangz@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Help needed: How to mail a file?
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:28:29 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

I have a question as I am learning UNIX:
How can I send a file to another user via e-mail? I look through the Unix
Reference, just cann't find such a command?

Thank you!
From: avolio@TIS.COM (Frederick M Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: "you have mail" messages
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:27:32 GMT
Reply-To: avolio@TIS.COM
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.

from where are these messages coming?  How are they "constantly" being
bombarded" with these messages?  Is it from the shell or from biff?