Hi I've got a big mail problem - as in "moby of mobies unto the unttermost moby" - yesterday I downloaded my mail as per usual, and as required by my agreement with TelstraClear. There was one email - no. 159 - that was clearly over 5MB, that took most of an hour to download. When I came to look for it, intending of course to send its author a thick ear, I couldn't find it anywhere in kmail.
You'd think that an over-5MB file would be easy to find. Except it has disappeared. Firstly, is there a handy grep script that can search through MBOXes? Secondly, this smells like an attack vector. Download an invisible file through a visible email that deletes itself .... Does kmail have the kind of vulnerability that would allow the installation of a privilege-excalating binary? Thirdly, I was going directly in downloading my email, because of the major problems I have had with Telecom's lines being unreliable, thus making it difficult to sanitise my email by looking through the webmail interface. I regard Telecom's gratuitous line unreliability as the teleco equivalent of a gratuitous buffer overflow, and naturally, would like to see Telecom pay the consequences. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- George Kelischek - "To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer." ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
