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

[Lawrence Greenfield]

--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.

> It seems that some versions of Eudora created such boundary strings.

Yep, it's broken.

> The attached patch should fix this problem. BTW: is this the right list to
> send patches to or does there exist a mailinglist better suited for this?

This is the right place.

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.

Larry