Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 19:12:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: Maury Markowitz <mmarkowitz@ceiss.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: An article from Microsoft Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910071908540.90151-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <C11744CD8825D111960600805F0D1059AC8DFA@io.ceiss.org>
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Maury Markowitz wrote: > The week before that (actually three weeks ago now) a single message in a > remote POP mailbox stopped the entire mail system from working. Whenever it > attempted to get mail from that mailbox, the MAPI DLL would start taking up > 99% of the CPU - forever. The machine slowed to a crawl. Now do they > propose that making all mail retrieval go through a single DLL is a good > idea for stability? And why is it that Netscape had no problem reading it > (thus clearing the logjam)? The IT guys had no idea what to do, they wanted > to do a re-install or suggested I use something else for POP because this > sort of thing happened "all the time". There was an article on bugtraq a month or so back which claimed that one of the M$ mail products (probably outlook) would hang like this if it received a message which was fragmented such that the first character in the fragment was a '+' (I think). This sounds like an incredible protocol layering violation if true, but I can't remember whether anyone else replied confirming it. Kris ---- XOR for AES -- join the campaign! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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