* Wichert Akkerman (wichert@cistron.nl) wrote: > Previously Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > > Some users of our network (a Debian unstable mail server with postfix, > > procmail, uw-imap, uw-ipop3d and Oulook Express clients) report > > instances of merged e-mail messages: two separate messages become one > > with merged headers and loss of one of the messages' body. > > I'm quite certain it is a bug in how procmail deals with mboxes. > I used to suffer from this on a regular basis until I switched all > my mail over to maildirs. I have a hard time believeing it is a bug in procmail unless it was recently introduced. I use procmail for local delivery on a stable system which handles a large amount of mail with no problem. > The nul-characters are weird though, I never had those, and suggest > a kernel problem. I seem to recall a message being sent to bugtraq about a way to exploit pine in funny ways by sending very odd emails which either contained alot of NULLs or caused pine to generate alot. Unfortunately it was a few months ago and I don't have the notice handy. Stephen
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