Rod.. Whitworth dixit: >I just wondered how somebody who has a string of alerts of his own can >regard anything else as unsafe.
Eh, you are reading things I did not write, I think. >The Cheez Wizz 1998 alert. >The several buffer overflows detected in June 2001 I patched some of these; besides, don't we all have NXSTACK, NXHEAP, W^X and ProPolice now, these days? >The CRAM-MD5 problem of February THIS YEAR. Sure, but you would have to find someone to actually enable it. >But seeing you bring PINE into it: pine, uw-imapd and c-client all come in the same source file. >Is it true or false that PINE uses an undocumented extension (SCAN) tha I have no idea, but you might want to tcpdump. >UW-IMAP has and therefore fails with other IMAPDs that don't? It does not fail on other imapds. >And UW-IMAP cannot handle maildirs. Unless you use an "illegal" >non-Crispin addition. Eduardo Chappa, one of the head pine developers, maintains this patch and readily advocates it. For reasons to not integrate it see the other mail. And (except some proprietary databases) that's the only one missing which is in widespread use. ><snip overlong sig> My signature is not overlong. It's exactly 4x78 (man McQuary). In contrast, *yours* is not correctly separated from the message body, *and* it is FIVE lines long, *and* YOU are replying to me personally even if I read the list. >Fortunately I think ALL IMAP sucks Why are you replying then, creating flamebait? >POP3 Oh yeah, no comment. >>From the land "down under": Australia. >Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over? > >Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. >Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server. > > > > > > > qed bye, //mirabile -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt
