[spambayes-dev] crash from sb_imapfilter.py

Tony Meyer tameyer at ihug.co.nz
Thu Sep 30 04:46:43 CEST 2004


> I received a couple of junk mails that caused my sb_imapfilter.py to 
> crash.  The problem was that the messages contained a space 
> inside the brackets of a Message-ID (even though that's probably
> illegal).  This caused the "id" of the message to contain a space,
> and this gave difficulty in the IMAP SEARCH command in the Save method.
> 
> I see two possible solutions:
> - strip() the message-id before it is assigned to the "id" field, or
> - properly quote the search command in the Save method.
> 
> I think it's probably a good idea to do the latter anyway, so 
> here is a patch.  I can check this in if there is agreement.

Have you checked this in?  (I don't recall seeing it).  I was away when you
posted the message, and I don't think there's anyone else here that cares
about imapfilter <0.5 wink>, so you probably got no response.

Anyway +1 from me for checking it in.

=Tony Meyer



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