Package: mutt Version: 1.5.11-1 Severity: critical This is awful.
For years I have performed multiple opens of mbox files, using multiple mutt processes. For years it worked. Now it doesn't. Now, if you do this, message bodies will be nuked out of the folder and the Content-Length: header rewritten to zero. The latter appears to be a subtly different issue; the header was rewritten for some but not all messages, and the ones with the nuked bodies were a *subset* of the ones whose Content-Length: headers were written. This is very, very, very, very bad behavior, and I would be deeply furious about it if I hadn't been able to use e2undel on the remote host where my mail spools to recover the ~150MB deleted spool file from a live filesystem and extract the obliterated message bodies from it. I was miraculously lucky. Anybody who spools mail locally, doesn't have root on the host where their mail spools, or who uses ext3 would have been badly screwed. Mutt should either go back to not destroying mailbox contents on multiple opens, should implement a locking mechanism to prevent other copies of itself from opening a given folder for writing at the same time, or (easiest to implement but least useful), refuse to open a mailbox that another Mutt process has open. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-powerpc-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mutt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.3 4.3.28-3 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [ ii libgnutls12 1.2.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libncursesw5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1.6 Authentication abstraction library ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.2.4-1 A high-performance mail transport Versions of packages mutt recommends: ii locales 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii mime-support 3.35-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]