cyrus-imapd-2.1.13 sieve curiosity

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Aidan Evans wrote:

> >> for it in Cyrus 2.1 beyond 2.1.13?  There does not seem to be a mention of
> >> it in 2.1.15 changes.html, but maybe it's covered under "Minor other bug
> >> fixes".  If there was a correction, is it easy to incorporate into 2.1.11?
> >> I don't want to update Cyrus completely in the middle of term, but a small
> >> code change and recompile may be acceptable.
> >
> >No, there is no fix for this problem currently.
>
>   Would it make sense to have the detection of a "sieve parse error" in
> lmtpd set a global flag to cause the lmtpd to do a "shut_down" after
> processing the message, so that the corrupt state would not be propagated
> to the handling of other messages?  Alternatively, and perhaps simpler,
> would it be bad to have this error cause a "fatal" in the lmtpd?

As I noted, this isn't a problem with the 2.2 bytecode system (except in
timsieved, where I'd argue that having it fatal() is probably the wrong
solution).

-Rob

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