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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: gnus chokes on this junk mail
Date: 12 Jan 1998 14:44:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3en2dia7f.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 12 Jan 1998 23:34:21 +0100

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Stefan Waldherr <swa@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

>> You were right. I removed a bunch of lines from the `To' field and gnus
>> could read the mail. Nevertheless I consider it a bug. In fact a nasty
>> one.

> Does it hang forever, or does it just take lots of time?

It just takes a lot of time (upwards of five to ten minutes on my
machine).  An unavoidable side effect of slow regex matching, I think,
although one could argue that Gnus should simply bail on attempting to
match anything with a To header over a certain length.

I've considered just procmailing such messages away, as they're invariably
spam.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


  reply	other threads:[~1998-01-12 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-08 11:07 Stefan Waldherr
1998-01-10 21:39 ` Ken Raeburn
1998-01-10 22:05   ` Stefan Waldherr
1998-01-12 22:34     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:44       ` Russ Allbery [this message]
1998-01-13 21:11         ` Ken Raeburn
1998-02-02 18:24         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-01-12 22:47       ` Stefan Waldherr
1998-01-12 22:51         ` Hrvoje Niksic

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