Re: [nail-devel] corrupted folder

[Gunnar R. <gu...@ac...>]

ne...@ma... wrote:

> I was a bit more relaxed during the second occurance tonight while
> doing an encryption test wich caused an mbox corruption.  Here is
> a paste from the very end of my mbox which I "q"uitted just after
> noticing that the freshly received encrypted email caused some
> corruption.  The encrypted email was fine first.  When I "inc"ed
> new mail, the next email (rather: its header) got partially "fused"
> into the encrypted message.

I finally found time to look into this. A fix should be in CVS.
Please test if it works for you.

> (I'm actually wondering that nail saves the decrypted version.
> Should it really do this?

The decrypted version is not intended to be saved in the mailbox.
That it appeared there was a consequence of the bug. It is, however,
saved in a deleted temporary file. With the "inc" command, the
current offset in this temporary file was incorrectly assumed
to be the size of the mailbox, which it isn't anymore after the
decrypted message has been appended to it. This caused the
decrypted text to appear in the local mailbox as well at quit
time when it was written back. The problem did not affect POP,
IMAP, or maildir mailboxes.

Gunnar