Problems with some MIME messages (cyrus-imapd-2.1.9)

[Ralf Haferkamp]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:33:07PM -0500, Lawrence Greenfield wrote:
> --On Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:29 PM +0100 Ralf Haferkamp 
> <rhafer at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >we encountered problems with some multipart MIME mails. It seems, that
> >cyrus-imapd fails to correctly seperate the different parts of mail under
> >certain circumstances. This e.g. the case if one MIME part of the mail
> >contains a multipart/alternative part, that has a boundary which contains
> >the boundary of the enclousing MIME part as a substring. I guess I better
> >give an example here: ;)
> 
> This is non-compliant MIME.
Well, after taking a look at the MIME RFCs again, I think misinterpreted
it. I think you are right, it's broken MIME
 
> We'll review the patch (Stanford also had this issue) but it's not high 
> priority since it's a cater-to-broken-client issue.
Ok, thanks.

-- 
Ralf