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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Liam,

Given the error message your get, it seems that the call to 
Mail::Address->parse() makes Sympa process die.
Could you please tell us what version of MailTools you are using?

You will probably need to upgrade (or downgrade) MailTools...

Liam Kirsher a écrit :
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
>
>