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[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi Otto,

On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:38:32 +0300
"Mail administrator, Otto J. Makela" <address@concealed> wrote:

> It seems that you can wedge a Sympa installation hard by trying to send
> a message with UTF-16 encoded headers through it. We are running Sympa
> 6.1.4 but I don't think this has been fixed in the later releases, since
> the problem stems from the perl cpan library Encode::MIME::Header which
> still only supports UTF-8 in message headers.
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~dankogai/Encode-2.49/lib/Encode/MIME/Header.pm
> 
> The symptom is that sympa.pl dies. Sympa will still accept messages,
> but does not distribute them. Removing the wedged message helps and the
> logjam gets cleared from the system.
> 
> At least, this is my initial analysis. Anyone else seen this happen?

Sympa uses MIME::EncWords and also it does not support UTF-16 &
UTF-32 by now.

Would you please send me a few sample messages crashes Sympa?
Note that several months may be taken to solve the problem.

Thank you,

--- Soji

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