From: quanstro@coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] Unescaped "From" in mail items
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f997b973ebc0e8224579226e3c6b04a@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080720072831.BA0FC1E8C1F@holo.morphisms.net>
> This is acme mail's fault. The easiest fix is to change
> /acme/mail/src/mesg.c to do two writes: first use write
> to write the header, and then use write2 to write the body
> (write2 is in reply.c and knows how to escape From).
> You'll probably also want to make write2 return whether
> or not it succeeded.
it's a bit odd that the mail readers (Mail, ned, imap4d)
all use upas/fs to take care of reading mailboxes, but
when appending a message to a mailbox, all three
assume they know how mailboxes are structured.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-11 8:51 [9fans] 'From' in outgoing mail considered harmful Richard Miller
2008-02-06 5:50 ` [9fans] Unescaped "From" in mail items Adrian Tritschler
2008-02-06 9:57 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-20 7:31 ` Russ Cox
2008-07-22 1:21 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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