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From: fetchmail-friends-admin(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org
[mailto:fetchmail-friends-admin(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of
Gary Sims
Clearly the return-path is broken, it looks like the
Received: header has been
pasted on the end. I would guess a memory corruption
somewhere as the closing
">" is missing which would imply something is being
overwritten by something else.
I agree, the question now remains, is it my ISP's mail server
which is broken
or is it fetchmail in its fetching of the mail by POP3.
Unlikely to be fetchmail (but not impossible). The address is stored in a
buffer defined as being BUFSIZ characters long. This is an OS define. On my
Mandrake 9.1 box it's defined by stdio.h as being _IO_BUFSIZ. That appears to
be defined by libio.h as _G_BUFSIZ which appears to be defined by _G_config.h
as 8192. Even a very long email address should be less than 8191 bytes :)
It could be some bizarre bug (so I've CCd to the -devel list so that the
experts can have a look) that's causing a lack of truncation only for really
long addresses (or possibly ones where the terminating > is missing), but the
fact that you're the only person to report it (so far anyway) makes me suspect
a cause elsewhere.
One test might be to hack rfc822.c such that at each invocation of nxtaddr()
it sets all bytes in address[] to be NULL. Of course, you'll need to get a
hold of a known broken email to test with :(
IMHO, I don't actually agree. The mail message was on a POP3
server somewhere
which means it has gone through some sort of processing and
has arrived. The
local delivery failed and the NDN failed. In my opinion this
message should
be saved to disk and a notification sent to the postmaster. A
few years back
I worked on several email gateways including X.400 to SMTP
and our golden
rule was that no message should ever be lost. Worse case it
should be written
to disk for later examination. Just my opinion.
Actually, I agree. What I'd like is that any broken message be forwarded as a
plain text attachment to the postmaster. I agree with the line "Be liberal in
what you accept, and conservative in what you send". Right now however
fetchmail simply drops broken email on the floor (or leaves it behind and
ignores it).
PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be
ignored utterly.
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Rob | What part of "no" was it you didn't understand?