Package: ssmtp
Version: 2.62-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
Hello *,
I am using ssmtp to send emails from an embedded system. So I grabbed that
ssmtp_2.62.orig.tar.gz from your debian package server and compiled it on my
own. What I do with it is to send emails containing attachements of several
megabytes. Well, I already found at least one problem:
If the base64 encoded attachement data is NOT split into lines of less than
2048 characters, the buffer-handling in ssmtp looses data.
So I applied the following patch:
diff -u -r -N ssmtp/ssmtp.c ssmtp-neu/ssmtp.c
--- ssmtp/ssmtp.c 2008-03-06 21:01:22.000000000 +0100
+++ ssmtp-neu/ssmtp.c 2009-05-19 14:01:17.000000000 +0200
*/
ssize_t smtp_write(int fd, char *format, ...)
{
- char buf[(BUF_SZ + 1)];
+ char buf[(BUF_SZ + 3)];
va_list ap;
ssize_t outbytes = 0;
va_start(ap, format);
- if(vsnprintf(buf, (BUF_SZ - 2), format, ap) == -1) {
+ if(vsnprintf(buf, (BUF_SZ + 1), format, ap) == -1) {
die("smtp_write() -- vsnprintf() failed");
}
va_end(ap);
With this, I do not need to split the attachement into small lines and slow
down the transmission. BTW: Do you know the original author of this code? Whom
do I have to contact for code contribution?
Thanks so far,
Jens Möller
To: [email protected]
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