5 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Problem with "und...
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Polarcom WebmasterOct 15, 2004 3:38 am 
Sam VarshavchikOct 15, 2004 4:14 am 
Ben KennedyOct 15, 2004 8:01 am 
Mitch (WebCob)Oct 16, 2004 1:32 pm 
James HenryOct 19, 2004 1:10 pm 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] Problem with "undisclosed-recipients"Actions...
From:James Henry (jhe@apathy.ca)
Date:Oct 19, 2004 1:10:49 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Polarcom Webmaster writes:

The problem appears when message like this: comes into mailbox "cur" folder. It size is about 360-380 bytes maximum. When someone tries to check mail mostly in Outlook Express, server unexpectedly terminates connection. Problem solves when I delete this message from mailbox on server.

We had this problem with Postfix inbound and a self-rolled POP3 server. Basically submitting an empty email like that without a newline confuses OE entirely and it dies on the connection.

Courier-MTA seemingly adds in an extra carriage return upon receipt, however Postfix apparently does not. We fixed this by modifying our POP3 server to add in an extra carriage return in such instances.

The bug is in OE, as expected, but we get the happy job of trying to fix it.

The question is: How not to process this kind of messages?

To fix? You could probably write a global filter looking for any email with no body and no whitespace at the bottom.

--James