Re: NMH mail package utility "inc" aborts before incorporating first new email into an NMH folder

Thus said Robert Elz on Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:35:07 +0700:

> What  makes you  think that  is  what it  is doing?  The "aborted"  in
> question I  believe means it  issues an error, and  ceases processing,
> not that  it calls abort(3)  which truly  would be bad  (that's useful
> only for cases

Well, the original poster (Howard) did state:

> > inc: abortcpy: would overflow, aborting: 1024 "X-AVAS-Report: FREEM"
> > Aborted

And sbr/utils.c has this comment for abortcpy():

/* abortcpy copies the NUL-terminated string from non-NULL src to dest
 * if it, including its terminator fits in given size.  Otherwise,
 * it abort(3)s after printing a message on stderr.

So it does appear to be calling abort(3).

In my case I  was seeing a different error for lines  that were too long
because inc couldn't find the line terminator:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2019-09/msg00007.html

And to  Philipp's credit, I  mentioned the  same thing (that  inc should
have better error handling):

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2019-09/msg00013.html

Andy