[Mailman-Developers] bug demonstration

Marc MERLIN marc_news@vasoftware.com
Tue, 4 Jun 2002 13:50:53 -0700


On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 12:28:33PM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:
> It happened to me today.  A message from a Mailman 2.0.11 mailing list,
> created by Mutt/1.2.5.1i.
> 
> The References: field had 5 message-ids separated by spaces only, making
> the line 254 characters long.  The next line was a blank line (in which a
> Status field had been added), pushing the rest of the header info into the
> body (the mailing list info, which is why my filters could not sort the
> message).
> 
> I thought this problem was with my POP3 mailbox server I was using until
> the test message came through on this list.

I'm pretty sure the bugs are different.
The one I refer to only happens if you have a very long line with no spaces,
and it does  not happen with mailman  2.0.11 (at least I couldn't  get it to
happen)

Marc
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