[IMail Forum] ADDUSER.EXE is Broken --- WAS: Weird Imail User Registry Entries

[Rick Davidson]

The version of adduser.exe dated 4/30/2004 1:14PM which was included in one 
of the 8.x releases is not parsing files correctly. I believe this started 
at 8.1 based on the reg entry dates.

We add users to our systems from a central management server by sending an 
email to a program alias which passes a command line to adduser.exe

The program alias is setup as:
D:\IMail\adduser.exe -h testserver.nat.com -f
to add a user the body of the email looks like this:
-u aaa111 -p aaa111 +active -chgpass +web +info
Adduser.exe appears to be parsing the header instead of starting at the 
body.

I setup a test program alias and sent the following message:
From: "Rick Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:10:46 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
format=flowed;
charset="iso-8859-1";
reply-type=response
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
-u aaa111 -p aaa111 +active -chgpass +web +info
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With the email above I get users added that look like this (with a leading 
square character)
charset="iso-8859-1";@testserver.nat.com
format=flowed;@testserver.nat.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

it also creates registry entries under users that look like this:
 (SMTPD32-8.11) id AD4F392D005E 02 Nov 2004 17:42:23 -0500
Please look at the parsing function it isnt starting at the body. I really 
need this fixed right away. Unfortunately this has been going on since April 
but I never noticed the user counts climbing, I cleaned one server that said 
there were 1800 + users when in fact there were only 450 or so users. My 
most busy server shows 6500 users, there should only be 900, the server has 
been sluggish lately so I am going to spend tomorrow deleting the 5000 some 
reg entries to see if it clears up. By the way none of those 5000 some 
entries show up in the Imail admin users tree.

Rick Davidson
National Systems Manager
North American Title Group
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