Developers of Sympa

[Sergiy Zhuk <address@concealed>]

hi

I hope the below is a known bug which has been fixed in 3.4.x...

It looks like if someone (say a spammer) sends a message with a sender
(parsed From:) starting with a '*', sympa.pl will die, e.g.:

From: *@*
From: "TOM(tom.com)" <*@tom.com>
From: "blah" <*address@concealed>

If there's a '*' anywhere else in the address, that works fine, e.g.:
From: "blah" <no*spam*@*>

This is happenning with 3.3.5, I didn't test it with 3.4.x.

I've added a temp. workaround to sympa.pl in 2 places where we check sender:

-    if ($sender =~ 
/^(mailer-daemon|sympa|listserv|mailman|majordomo|smartlist|$conf_email)/mio) 
{
+    if ($sender =~ 
/^(mailer-daemon|sympa|listserv|mailman|majordomo|smartlist|\*|$conf_email)/mio)
 {

But this is not a solution.
'*' is a perfectly legit char according to RFC-822 and thus should be dealt
with accordingly...

thanks

-- 
rgds,
serge