This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:45 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > 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.
This was unclear to me from the earlier messages I saw. Sounds like grave is reasonable, then. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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