Package: inn2 Version: 2.4.2-3 When localmaxartsize is set to 0 (no local max article size) in inn.conf nnrpd will take the localmaxartsize as being 0 and therefore refuse to allocate more memory for incoming data in its readline routine causing nnrpd to believe it has a read error when it next tries to read.
This problem can be simply fixed by adding an additional check to this if statement for the case when localmaxartsize is 0 and attached is a patch containing this fix. This bug has been in inn2 probably since the beginning and I have observed this behavior in both the current as well as oldstable versions.
diff -Naur inn-2.4.2/nnrpd/line.c inn-2.4.2-patch/nnrpd/line.c --- inn-2.4.2/nnrpd/line.c 2004-12-21 23:21:19.000000000 -0500 +++ inn-2.4.2-patch/nnrpd/line.c 2006-03-16 16:26:36.000000000 -0500 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ /* don't grow the buffer bigger than the maximum * article size we'll accept */ - if (newsize > (unsigned)PERMaccessconf->localmaxartsize) + if (newsize > (unsigned)PERMaccessconf->localmaxartsize && (unsigned)PERMaccessconf->localmaxartsize) newsize = PERMaccessconf->localmaxartsize; /* if we're trying to grow from the same size, to the
