Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail gets stuck because of malformed spam

[Karel K. <cl...@tw...>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:07:35PM +0200, Tho...@si... wrote:
> Jakob Hirsch wrote:

[...]

> So I don't know either if the malformed parts raised the same problem 
> as it occurred now. But in any case, I think fetchmail error handling 
> should be carefully reviewed for any possible case of aborting the 
> retrieval in order to avoid this DoS situation in the future.

Hehe one could send a malformed e-mail to this mailing list so all
people would get pissed - or write a bot which would send every hour
- that would make the bug to be solved promptly ;-)

CL<
> 
> Kind regards,
> Thomas Wolff