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Saving malformed message to an IMAP folder

Greetings,

Thank you for a wonderful project. I've enjoyed using mutt a great deal
over the years.

I've discovered a quirk under Mutt 1.4.2i that I though you'd like to be
aware of. When saving a specifically malformed message from my inbox to
another IMAP folder, Mutt hangs on the attempt to contact the IMAP
server and eventually times out the connection. I must then re-log into
Mutt, and the message has not been saved to the destination folder as
requested.

The offending message contains an ASCII 0 on one line followed by one
blank line. I have only seen this in spam, and I suspect it's an attempt
to confuse some spam filters. It might also be a quirk inherent to the
sender (Russian, apparently).

I can save the same message readily to a local folder (on the local
drive as opposed to the IMAP server), and both Pine 4.58 and
Squirrelmail seem to handle the message fine. I have seen one other
example of this same problem too with a different message (a copy of
that message is not readily available). The IMAP server is Courier
2.2.1 if that's of value.

An example message has been attached. Please let me know if I can
provide any more information.

Thank you,
-Andy.
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Andy Neely - VP Technical Operations
Front Range Internet, Inc.
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