Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-09-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:35:40AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both. There is. The license. (See debian-legal.) -- G. Branden Robinson |A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux|more legs

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, +00:52:25 EEST (UTC +0300), Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed these keys: Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 (Juhapekka Tolvanen's messages may be found on these mailing lists: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-legal@lists.debian.org) Man, you got

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Sorry I couldn't answer yout letters earlier. I had to repair my mailbox. I also had to involve and help the system administrators to go through all the IMAP mailboxes and filter out all the messages with suspect headers. Looks better now, thanks. I don't know much about the IMAP intrinsics,

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: caused the daemon (or the client) screw up the magic. I ended up with a magic message looking like this: ,- | From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Aug 30 16:36:48 2000 | Date: 30 Aug 2000 16:36:48 +0200 | From: Mail System Internal Data [EMAIL

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Paul Slootman
Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 Severity: important On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the From:, Status:,

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Buddha Buck
Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 Severity: important On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the From:,

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:32:17AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: commands. So having extremely long X-Keywords in mail messages will screw things up. Double yuck. This is in imap-4.7c/src/osdep/unix/unix.c BTW. See the original message and the accompanying thread in debian-devel,

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Buddha Buck
At 08:21 AM 8/31/00 -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both. Both... I had to manually delete several messages in Pine 4.21 folders and I don't use IMAP I don't use pine or imap, but the school hosting my

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
[Please Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any replies to this thread.] On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: I don't use pine or imap, but the school hosting my mailbox uses imap. The behavior I saw: Using POP to copy new mail to my workstation at work (running Eudora) seemed to cause ipop3d to

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
[Please Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any replies to this thread.] On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both. Both... I had to manually delete several messages in Pine 4.21 folders and I don't use IMAP Pine also uses libc-client which is

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Funny side effect of the bug, here is the new magic message in my mailbox :-) Check out the X-IMAP: entry: ,- | From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Aug 31 17:15:15 2000 | Date: 31 Aug 2000 17:15:15 +0200 | From: Mail System Internal Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the From:, Status:,

imap mailbox killer

2000-08-30 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 (Juhapekka Tolvanen's messages may be found on these mailing lists: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-legal@lists.debian.org) Man, you got great headers on your messages! I don't know if it was your intension, but you managed to totally screw up my inbox (no

Re: imap mailbox killer

2000-08-30 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
I had the same problem...I had to manually edit the messages after reading them. On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 (Juhapekka Tolvanen's messages may be found on these mailing lists: