On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Dirk Pape wrote:
> if the attached mail is in a Unix-mailbox, the mailbox appears empty or
> cannot be opened through uw-imapd. I tried two imap clients (Mulberry and
> Horde/IMP-Webmail) to verify.

Unfortunately, your bug report did not contain enough information to
resolve the problem, or even to reproduce the problem.

Please send a sample mailbox, containing the message, that you allege that
UW imapd can't open.  Also, please state what *version* of UW imapd has
the problem.  I built a mailbox with that message, and UW imapd had no
problem opening it.

For what it's worth, the message *is* damaged.  It appears that your virus
scanner software inserted the following lines in the middle of the
Chinese-language Subject: line, and terminated the header at that point:

X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre7-U12 [29421]
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X-may-be-Spam: SpamAssassin: 10.4/5.0
X-Remote-IP: 61.146.225.15
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

The actual Chinese-language subject was:

Subject:
 =?GB2312?B?0rXT4NTavNLW0LvyzfiwybeitefX09PKvP7Q+7SrzfjVvteswLTDv9TCyc/N?=
 =?GB2312?B?8tSqyMvD8bHS?=

Note that there were *two* continuation lines, not one.  Apparently your
virus-checking software doesn't implement this part of RFC 2822 correctly.

Since the Date: was at the other end of the damage, as was the correct
Content-Type, the Chinese-language text would be misinterpreted.  Perhaps
IMP and Mulberry objected to 8-bit text being called "us-ascii".

Otherwise, it looks like a perfectly valid Chinese language message, for
whatever level of "valid" that spam can be.

I'll be able to offer you more analysis if you can provide me with more
data, but maybe what I've offered you here is a start.

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
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