lmtpd: Trying to unput wrong character

Sebastian Hagedorn Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de
Sat Feb 15 15:25:45 EST 2014


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Februar 2014 23:17:20 +1100 regarding Re: lmtpd: Trying to unput wrong 
character:

> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014, at 10:55 PM, Mark wrote:
>> Good day,
>>
>> I've recently received some emails (from Nokia's mailing list) that give
>> me the following error when handed over to cyrus lmtpd for delivery:
>>
>> 4.3.0 lmtpd: Trying to unput wrong character (in reply to end of DATA
>> command)
>>
>> The emails are then stuck in the queue until manually deleted.
>>
>> I haven't debugged it in detail, but it looks like it's probably
>> triggered by innovative end-of-lines characters in the incoming email.
>> The end-of-line character sequence is  0d 00 0a (looking at the Postfix
>> queue).
>
> Wow, that's innovative alright!
>
> Do you have a nice reproducable testcase for me by any chance? (just
> lazy). I'd like to throw this into our testing framework - makes it
> easier to test the fix :)
>
>> Presumably this is non-standard. Should it be something that Cyrus
>> handles better, or should be something that Postfix repairs or rejects?
>
> Probably both, but the Cyrus part is my problem.

FWIW, I already filed a bug report for this issue:

<https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3840>
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