Re: Mailbox corruption under 2.3.18ac7

Ari Pollak (jello@waste.org)
Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:03:30 -0700 (PDT)


> In my particular case, I pull email via fetchmail, it gets fed into
> sendmail, and sendmail uses procmail to deliver it locally (and stuff
> it into my various mailboxes using my .procmailrc). I read with mutt.

I do exactly the same.

> I wasn't seeing garbage, but I was seeing truncated email that was
> obviously missing the message body and only had enough of the header to
> make it into my mailbox.

In my case it would corrupt mail that had already been delivered ok into
the mailbox, and later I would look again and the same email that had been
ok would be corrupt. It did corrupt some before I ever saw it as well.

> but it is pretty fixed. Between sendmail and procmail, however, you
> might manage enough delay to pile a few pieces of email on top of each
> other due to local delay (anti-spam DNS lookup, whatever).

Hmm. It didn't look like it was overwriting one email with parts of
another, it was just the same character over and over.

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