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[Liam Kirsher <address@concealed>]

David,

I'm using version 5.3b.4.

It's easy for me to duplicate the problem -- just place a message with
non-printing characters in the From: field into the spool/msg directory.
But, I'm not sure where to go from here, since my test seems to rule out
a problem with the address parsing provided by the MailTools package.

Thanks for your response.

Liam


David Verdin wrote:
> Liam,
>
> I can't reproduce your problem neither with my version (development
> version) nor with the latest stable version of 5.3 branch.
>
> What version do you use ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Liam Kirsher a écrit :
>> Hi --
>>
>> I am *still* having the problem that certain spam messages cause Sympa
>> to crash.
>>
>> In /home/sympa/spool/tmp I see messages like this:
>> Unrecognised line: address@concealed>  at /home/sympa/bin/Message.pm
>> line 89
>>
>> When I find the message with that email address in
>> /home/sympa/spool/msg, it invariably contains bad characters in the From
>> field:
>> From: ������ <address@concealed>
>>
>> In order to get Sympa to run, I have to remove the bad file(s) from the
>> msg directory. Then I can restart it manually and it processes the
>> remaining messages.
>> In the meantime, however, ALL messages for ALL lists are stuck!
>> I tried to replicate the problem with a simple Perl program, but was
>> unable to.  It seems to work fine if I try to parse the message
>> directly, which is puzzling.
>> http://www.numenet.com/sympa-err/spool/msg
>> Contains some example bad messages and the test program.
>>
>> So, what could be different between the test program and running Sympa?
>>
>> Liam
>>
>> P.S. I had tried rejecting the spam using a scenario, but apparently
>> Sympa is going to need to parse the message first anyway, to check for
>> the X-Spam-Flag header, so that isn't going to work.
>>
>>   
>

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Liam Kirsher
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