In article <199609201645.JAA26563@netcom21.netcom.com>,
Matthew B. Wood <devtrix@netcom.com> wrote:
> Yes, it's weird.  but that's what's happening.
> 
> I upgraded to Sendmail 8.7.6 yesterday before the daily system log update 
> went through.  Now, instead of "Charlie Root" as the addressee, it 
> shows up in elm as:
> 
>      2   Sep 19 Charlie ????D???@? (69)   daily output                        
> 
> 
> looking in the actual inbox, I see this:
> 
> From: "Charlie ^P0xce0xbf0xf7D0xce0xbf0xf7@0xce0xbf0xf7]0xce0xbf0xf7m0xd0^C" <ro
> ot>
> 
> This must be some clash between new Sendmail and the name "Charlie &" in 
> the passwd file.  But what is it?

See comp.mail.sendmail. There is a bug in 8.7.6 with a use of the
SPACELEFT macro in util.c (line 421 I think, in buildfname()). The macro
takes sizeof a pointer instead of a buffer, and this miscalculates. I
bet this is your problem.

Look for a line like:

snprintf(bp, SPACELEFT(buf, ptr),"%s", login);

And change it to:

snprintf(bp, buflen - (ptr - buf), "%s", login);