This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: > On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 06:29 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > > For my part, I do have to wonder if an mbox with an embedded NUL is even a > > valid mbox file.
It is. mbox format specifies a blank line, followed by ^'From ' is the message seperator. \0's make no difference. > > What is your MTA/MDA for this setup? > > Perfectly ordinary Debian exim and mail spool file format. > > If you believe that this is not valid mbox format, then the bug should > be refiled against exim4. Not necessary, see above. > > Have you by chance tested newer versions of mailutils-imap4d from etch or > > sid? Etch currently has version 1.0 of mailutils, and sid has version 1.1; > > we could hope that this bug might be fixed upstream. > > I checked with the upstream source when I filed the report, IIRC, and > verified that the relevant bug is there too. I grant you that this message is likely spam (who else puts a \0 in an email?) and that it seems to only truncate the one message. This (at least IMHO) downgrades the bug, but doesn't make it a non-bug. There is a (vanishingly small?) possibility that a wanted email could be truncated by this bug. I suggest a severity normal or important, depending on how likely you think this scenario is. I leave it to others who are actually responsible for the package to decide, but that's my advice. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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