Package: uw-imapd Version: 7:2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3 Severity: important On rare occasions, uw-imapd is corrupting users mailboxes. The problem has been observed with the /var/spool/mail/[username] file as well as ~/mbox. The problem has been observed with users who are using Apple's mail.app on OS X 10.5, and with users of Outlook Express on Windows XP. I have not seen the problem occur with SquirrelMail, but it's entirely possible that this is because SquirrelMail is used rarely.
Instances of mailbox corruption are irregular and occur on average about once a month, although it did happen to a Mail.app user twice in two days. The result is from around 30 to 200 (approximate) bytes of garbage overwriting that amount of the first message of the mailbox, from the first byte of the file. The file must be manually repaired before the user can get to their mailbox by constructing valid headers in place of the corrupted data. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages uw-imapd depends on: ii debconf [debcon 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc-client2007 7:2007b~dfsg-4+lenny3 c-client library for mail protocol ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.3-1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 SSL shared libraries ii openbsd-inetd [ 0.20080125-2 The OpenBSD Internet Superserver ii openssl 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a Versions of packages uw-imapd recommends: ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag Versions of packages uw-imapd suggests: pn logcheck <none> (no description available) ii mutt [imap-client] 1.5.18-6 text-based mailreader supporting M -- debconf information: uw-imapd/force_debconf_choice: false uw-imapd/protocol: imap2, imaps -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
