On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:22:49PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > found 361354 1:1.1+dfsg1-1 > > thanks
> > Ok, this bug still manifests in mailutils 1.1, the current version in > > unstable. > > Observing the effects myself, and rereading your report carefully, I do have > > to question again the severity assigned to this bug. While the > > NUL-containing message is truncated when read, retrieving other messages > > from the mailbox works fine, including those after the broken message in the > > mbox. You also note that this problem primarily affects spam, but spam by > > definition is mail you don't want to read, so if that's really the only > > occurrence of NULs in mails, I have a hard time regarding this as grave... > > :) > No, it is worse than that (at least, using emacs gnus as the mail > client): the connection is hosed. Creating a *new* connection and > reading later messages works fine. > But the IMAP connection open is hosed because the client and server get > out of sync: the server advertises how many bytes it will send, and then > sends fewer bytes, and the client stays waiting for the rest of the > data. Ah, this wasn't obvious to me when using telnet as my client. ;) Fair enough. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
