From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13596 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus chokes on this junk mail Date: 12 Jan 1998 14:44:36 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152932 10032 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12112 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:45:29 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA04924 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:48:14 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAH28112; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:48:26 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:45:18 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28000 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:45:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 23892 invoked by uid 504); 12 Jan 1998 22:44:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 23889 invoked from network); 12 Jan 1998 22:44:46 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (36.21.0.44) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 12 Jan 1998 22:44:45 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25906 invoked by uid 500); 12 Jan 1998 22:44:37 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 12 Jan 1998 23:34:21 +0100 Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13596 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13596 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Stefan Waldherr 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)