bugs in spool_copy_message()

Andrew Morgan morgan at orst.edu
Wed Oct 27 14:04:33 EDT 2004



On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Philip Chambers wrote:

> I have just found two flaws in the code which takes a message into cyrus (typically
> during the DATA phase of LMTP.  I am amazed that one has existed for so long.
>
> It means that messages with a line longer that 8190 bytes will be rejected with the
> error "Message contains NUL characters".  (Confirmed in testing.)

I've had some of our users report the "Message contains NUL characters"
bounce message, but I could never figure out why.  If you come up with a
patch for this, I'd be very interested in applying it here.  Note: We are
still running cyrus-imapd 2.1.16 here...

	Andy
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