[Dovecot] Strange POP3 problem...

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Oct 15 20:36:49 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 05:03 -0700, Brad Bateman wrote:
> I have the exact same issue.  I just figured that it is malformed MIME
> spam that Dovecot cannot digest.  It can happen on any of  our mail
> clients: Outlook, OE, TB at the frequency of about every 3 ~ 6 months.
> Delete the offending mail, and harmony is returned. 
> Next time it happens, I'll try to do an autopsy on the bad mail and
> try to determine what is different about it.
..

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 07:31 -0700, Ken A wrote:
> We see it here as well, though I'm not sure it's exactly the same 
> problem. It's always been a very short message with incorrect
> headers, 
> _no_ subject header and no message body. Dovecot can't digest it.
> 
I have a bit of trouble believing that it's Dovecot that can't handle
it. Much more likely is that the clients or something between them can't
handle it. But if you can show that Dovecot can't handle some specific
message correctly I'd really like to know about it.

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