On 28 May 2010 20:27, Wesley Parish <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Is it still on the mail server? > Firstly, is there a handy grep script that can search through MBOXes? > > You could search for a file larger than 5 megs in your email archive using the find command. find <KMail's data directory> -type f -a -size +5M -ls I'm sorry I have forgotten where the email is stored. I suspect somewhere in the ~/.kde tree. 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? > Goodness only knows, but I suspect not. Kmail is a pretty well put together program. > 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 > np -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
