Re: imap mailbox killer
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 <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.
Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere.
This needs to be fixed fast.
Paul Slootman
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