[pmmail-list] PMMAIL 2.20.2380 file corruption (forwards with attachments)

[Jimmy S. McCorquodale, Jr.]

Hello All,

In all bug reports I have recieved from users, over the past two years (including compiled lists from the mailing lists)  I haven't seen anythign about this prior to today.  I have added it to the bug list.


As for the Peter coming here to start work at our offices, right now he is stuck in Paris due to the FAA restrictions.   He is flying on an American owned airline, so they should be allowed to fly in soon.

Thanks,

jimmy





On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:13:54 -0700 (PDT), David Azarewicz wrote:

Yes, I reported this "bug" about 3 years ago (yes YEARS) when I did just about the 
same thing with license files.  I was told it was not a bug and to use different file 
names.  Not a solution in my opinion.

David

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 15:57:37 +0200, Ulrich Jakobus wrote:

>There is a bug in PMMAIL 2.20.2380 for Windows so that wrong
>files get sent as attachment when e-mails are forwarded. Quite
>simple to reproduce:
>
> - create a file c:\x.dat with content "File 1"
>
> - send an e-mail to yourself with subject "Mail 1" and
>   with the file c:\x.dat attached (this file contains "File 1")
>
> - create a file c:\x.dat with content "File 2" (i.e. overwrite
>   or edit existing file)
>
> - send an e-mail to yourself with subject "Mail 2" and
>   with the file c:\x.dat attached (this file contains "File 2")
>
> - now we have received 2 e-mails with subjects "Mail 1" and "Mail 2",
>   both have a file "x.dat" attached, which is of course different
>   in content
>
> - forward the received e-mail with subject "Mail 1" to yourself
>   (forward including attached file)
>
> - forward the received e-mail with subject "Mail 2" to yourself
>   (forward including attached file)
>
>
>BUG: The file "x.dat" which is now attached to both the forwarded
>     e-mails has "File 1" attached. The attached file "File 2" of
>     Mail 2 got replaced with "File 1" (probably an already existing
>     file "x.dat" in the PMMAIL TEMP folder is not overwritten when
>     then second e-mail is forwarded).
>
>
>This is quite a serious bug for me. I created licence files "licence.dat"
>for our customers and the licence creation program sent them to me.
>I forwarded these licence files to all our customers, and now it turns
>out that all of them but the first got the wrong licence file (all got
>the licence file intended for the first customer). The only workaround
>is to explicitely safe the file from the received e-mail and attach it
>again to the e-mail to be forwareded.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ulrich Jakobus
>
>
>

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