[pmmail-list] Message that crashes PMmail

[Rod... Whitworth]

Paul,
you a right about a space in the first "empty" line. There is no
content type line either.

The problem is that the win versions of PMM will download this message
and then crash trying to open it.

My client (using PMmail recommended by me, fool that I was)  sent me
the message by bouncing it.

That crashed PMM on their box so they thought it didn't go and sent me
the contents by attachment. That was disarmed by losing its headers I
guess.

The problem for me (and maybe them) is that my PMM now closes silently
when running minimised or pops a win error dialog that says a log is
being generated (where? not in event viewer - this is win2k) when
running on the desktop.

I installed the latest beta over it - still dies.

Obviously one lousy space has made it quite ill!

Sad!

rgds, Rod.

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 11:15:10, Paul Hodges wrote:

>On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 16:45:51 +1100, Rod... Whitworth wrote:
>
>>  And I tried loading 2.20.2380 and every time I try to leave PMmail
>>  running (Win2K sp1) it errors out with a popup that says it errored and
>>  has to close.
>
>IME the normal cause of this is that the line terminating the headers
>is not empty, but contains one or more  spaces or tabs.  I have had a
>number of spam messages like this.  I think it is strictly invalid
>(though I suppose it could just be read as a continuation of the
>previous header line that doesn't actually add anything - I need to
>go back to the RFC to check whether that is excluded), but of course
>PMMail shouldn't crash trying to read it.
>
>I use the remote control to delete any likely spam on the server -
>otherwise you will have to use a different client to collect it.
>
>Paul Hodges
>QBS Software Ltd
>
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