The following reply was made to PR mutt/1810; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mutt Bugs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Subject: mutt/1810: -s option does not handle newlines properly
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:52:16 +0100
A related problem was reported as Debian bug #264014:
----- Forwarded message from "H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:58:01 -0700
From: "H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: -s option does not handle newlines properly
Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.6-20040803+1
Severity: normal
Hi, I just stumbled upon a funny bug in mutt's -s option: it does not
check if the subject string you pass in contains newlines. It just
copies the string verbatim after generating the "Subject:" header. You
can actually (ab)use this bug to attach an entire message body using
-s alone. For example, save the attached text file as 'randomtext' and
do this:
mutt username -s"`cat randomtext`"
You'll see that because of the blank 2nd line in the file, the
Subject: header has bled into the message body. We've effectively
attached a message body using -s. (Note that this only works in bash,
tcsh misinterprets the quotes and just creates a huge mess.)
I would've considered this a feature, not a bug, were it not for the
fact that Mutt places a Reply-To: header at the bottom of the message
body, obviously firmly believing that it's still in the header
section. :-)
T
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Christoph
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