We're running courier-imap at a site with a fairly large number of Win95
boxes running Netscape 4.7x, and they've been complaining of BSODs related
to the Netscape mail program.  I've done some testing using tcpflow to look
at the traffic between a Win95 box and the server, and nothing looks out of
the ordinary in the conversation between the Win95 box and courier's pop3
server.

Unfortunately we can't replace the Win95 systems with something more stable
because they're running accounting and billing software on these machines
that doesn't work on newer versions of Windows (and certainly not under
Linux or freebsd which is what I would like to run :-).

I thought the problem might be related to the SMTP sending process because
the Linux MTA was presenting a multi-line 2xx response at the beginning of
the conversation (I saw this crash Applixware's Linux mail client several
years ago).  I cut the SMTP banner down to a single line, and the crashes
continue.

The only thing that hit me looking at this that might cause problems is the
length of the UIDs returned by the UIDL command.  The response is a list of
messages with a sequence number, and most of the Maildir file name.  In our
case the Maildir file name is pretty long as we're using the MD5 checksum
of the message body as the primary part of the sequence part of the name
and the FQDN of the mail host giving a total length around 72 characters.
My thought is that these long lines might be triggering buffer overflows in
the Netscape program as it handles these lists of messages.

Has anybody else on the list run into similar problems with Win95 clients?
I'm planning on deploying courier-imap at some regional ISP sites with
several thousand mailboxes, and don't really want to generate a support
nightmare (even if I don't have to answer the phones :-).

Bill
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