I get a systematic freeze with a very peculiar kind of spams when trying
an IMAP connexion. It happens with almost empty spams, that have no
title nor contents apparently, only a minimal header (I put one such
spam header at the bottom of this email, you will see even part of its
header "has to be reconstituted").
When downloading my mail via the ordinary POP way, such spams are
correctly filtered out by SpamSieve and displaced in a spam folder,
which I empty before reconnecting. Because I did set that account to
erase from the server the messages that I did erase locally, usually
Powermail does erase the spam from my POP server, leaving there only the
good messages. Alas such a behavior doesn't work for the "almost empty"
spams: presumably there is not enough info in them for Powermail to
issue the necessary POP command.
So, I think: 'I'll connect the IMAP way, to click on them and ask
delete/expunge'
This also will usually work perfectly, without downloading anything else
than the message headers.
Well, it is there I crash Powermail.
After the usual series of messages ("inspecting inbox...") I get in the
end a dialog box saying there has been a problem in sending the
appropriate command, and generally even before I click OK I get the
colored spin ball forever.
I must say, when I kill PM and restart, I don't have any problem with
the local database and nothing is lost, but the only way I found up to
now to erase such an empty message is to log on in the webmail, and
delete it there, from an html navigator.
I would understand that PM lacks the necessary data to issue commands,
wether in a POP or an IMAP connection, but I find it quite shocking that
it dies this way. It is very had to demonstrate imap connections when
your software may die because of a spam :-/
Herve
Here is the header I recuperated from the last such spam, by asking
"show full header" (once POP-downloaded):
------------------ RFC822 header ------------------
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from [218.65.58.38] (218.65.58.38) by mx.laposte.net (7.0.024)
id 4036D31A004F69D5; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:40:55 +0100
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (derived from envelope by
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:40:55 +0100 (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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remove ".listes" and add a dot after fh please
enlevez ".listes" et ajoutez un point après fh
