I was unable to reproduce this behavior in mutt 1.5.6. Care to try a newer version? On Monday, 15 March 2004 at 11:56, Andy Neely wrote: > 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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