This was similar to my problem a few weeks ago, I traced back the emails to a attachment, that I thought was a virus of some kind but couldn't actually prove it.
It has happened about 10 times to 4 users over a period of 3 months, so it is very rare and hard to capture. Be interested in the final analysis. Wayne At 10:54 PM 13-03-02 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: >Hi, > >I just subscribed to this list. I think I've found a problem in qpopper. > >I received a mail today, the contents of which was http requests produced by >some IIS virus, and my qpopper daemon refused to read the mail. > >I reduced the spool file to just that mail and let qpopper hang while I did a >lsof, and found that the file position was at EOF. The mail was 2628 bytes >long. I checked my mail client's debug output and it reported (as told by >qpopper) that the mail was 2633 bytes long. It looks to me like some part of >that mail made qpopper miscalculate the length of the mail. > >qpopper version 4.0.3 on SuSE 7.3. > >If anyone wants to look at the mail I can put it somewhere for download, (or >perhaps send it to someone :) > >regards >Anders
