When I tried to index my mail using Ubuntu's 0.21-1 on a 32-bit system, I got an out of memory error:
Out of memory (at rfc822.c:439, -246 bytes) At first I thought this was the same problem that others had reported, but the negative number made me suspicious. I changed emit_int to take a size_t instead of an int, and saw in fact that mairix was trying to malloc roughly 4.2G of ram in uuencode_data(). Most of my mail is in mbox format, and after a long binary search, I found the offending message, which turned out to be malformatted. And then I produced this test case (without the leading "> "; also attached): > From nobody Wed Dec 15 13:33:29 2004 > From nobody Wed Dec 15 13:33:13 2004 > From nobody Wed Dec 15 13:33:01 2004 > Message-Id: <sc7bb803....@mailhost2.ioppublishing.com> > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:29:31 +0000 > From: j...@uwo.ca > To: <j...@uwo.ca> > Subject: test > Lines: 2 > X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:53:56 -0500 > > This is a test. The repeated "From " headers seem to be causing the problem. 1) Could mairix be adjusted to be more tolerant of such things, producing a warning and continuing? 2) Could the oom message use size_t instead of int? Thanks, Dan
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