Re: imap mailbox killer
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, but here is the story of what
happend (comming from an uninitiated user ;-).
Looks like all boxes get an extra message inserted. It looks something
like this:
,-----
| From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Aug 30 09:54:25 2000
| Delivery-Date: Thu May 11 21:51:47 2000
| Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 21:51:47 +0200 (MET DST)
| From: Mail System Internal Data <MAILER-DAEMON@host.com>
| Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
| X-IMAP: 0928135936 0000033614
| Status: RO
| X-Status:
| X-Keywords:
| X-UID: 2
|
| This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
| a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software.
| If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
| with the data reset to initial values.
`-----
I don't know if it's the IMAP daemon or the pine client who is responsible
for this.
One (or several) of Juhapekka message header entries, probably this:
,-----
| X-Keywords: =?iso-8859-1?Q?kettutyt=F6t=2C_Sanna_Sillanp=E4=E4=2C_IKL=2C_Jammu_Silta?=
| =?iso-8859-1?Q?vuori=2C_ryss=E4=2C_somali=2C_lesbo=2C_homo=2C_lesbian=2C?=
| =?iso-8859-1?Q?_anarchism=2C_nazi=2C_communism=2C_CIA=2C_bomb=2C_nuclear?=
| =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C_Semtex=2C_satan=2C_traitor=2C_pedophile?=
`-----
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 <MAILER-DAEMON@host.com>
| Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
| Message-ID: <967646208@host.com>
| X-IMAP: 0967646162 0000000339 =?iso-8859-1?Q?kettutyt=F6t=2C_Sanna_Sillanp=E4=E4=2C_IKL=2C_Jammu_Silta?=
| Status: RO
|
| This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
| a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software.
| If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created
| with the data reset to initial values.
`-----
and a lot of NULL characters preceeding a few (5-6) of the messages in some
boxes.
Hope this helps to find the problem.
There's definitely a BUG lurking somewhere.
Cheers,
Cristian
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, +00:52:25 EEST (UTC +0300),
> Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cii@axis.com> 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 great headers on your messages!
>
>
> Maybe the problem is caused by my X-Keywords-header, that serves as
> spook line (Hello, NSA! :-) ). I shortened it. Do you still have that
> problem?
>
> There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both.
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