[Dovecot] Possible Caching Bug showing up as a MIME BoundaryIssue

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Oct 27 20:48:17 EEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:53 -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> I continue to deal with this issue where the MIME Boundary appears on the 
> bottom of the email and it is still happening as of Dovecot 1.0.5. 
> Unfortunately, it continues to happen to me ONLY with one email box that I 
> have seen and, of course, the email box has sensitive data in it.

Sorry it took a while to reply. You were almost on the bottom of my
"reply later" mails.

Anyway the mbox-anonymize.pl script's (that I mentioned) purpose is to
modify the mbox so that it doesn't contain any sensitive data, only the
mbox metadata is left there. But now that I think about it, it doesn't
really help here because it also replaces all MIME headers and
boundaries with 'x'..

> One update is that I have determined thanks to a colleague that if I move 
> the email to another folder and back, the issue does not reappear so 
> recreating this issue is a bear.

Does it get fixed if you delete dovecot.index.cache and flush the
client's cache to download the message again?

> Anyway, will *just* the cache file help you because that is information we 
> log anyway and doesn't fall under our privacy issues?

Not really.

> Otherwise would you be willing to login to our server via SSH and agree to 
> SAGE's ethics guide and do the research as an administrator under those 
> rules?  http://www.sage.org/ethics/ethics_horiz.pdf

That would work for me.
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