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Bug#652740: mailagent: mail header misses day and month string

December 20th, 2011 - 08:50 am ET by Winfried Boxleitner | Report spam
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Package: mailagent
Version: 1:3.1-65-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after upgrade to mailagent 1:3.1-72-0.1 the header of each individual
mail generated by mailagent misses the day and month string. e.g.:
"From mailagent 20 13:10:24 MET 2011" instead of:
"From mailagent Tue Dec 20 13:22:39 MET 2011"

as a consequence, my mail reader (alpine) does not recognize these
mails, and they are not displayed.

a downgrade to mailagent 1:3.1-65-2 restores normal operation.





Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mailagent depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.41
ii libc6 2.13-21
ii perl 5.14.2-6
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.8.5-1.1

mailagent recommends no packages.

mailagent suggests no packages.

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#1 Rafael Laboissiere
December 22nd, 2011 - 03:30 pm ET | Report spam
package mailagent
severity 652740 grave
notfound 652740 1:3.1-65-2
found 652740 1:3.1-72-0.1
thanks

I can confirm the bug reported below. I am hereby setting the
severity level to "grave" because this version of the pacakge causes
data loss. I just got a couple of email messages being silently
deleted from my mailbox due to this bug.

Here is a description of what happened. After upgrading mailagent to
version 3.1-72-0.1, new messages were added to my mailbox by mailagent
with the wrong From header (as described in the bug report below).
Those messages were not recognized by mutt and did not appear in the
index page. However, they seem to be considered by mutt as part of
the last valid message in the mailbox, even though they were not shown
anywhere. I then deleted the last message of my mailbox and all the
new messages added by mailagent with the wrong header silently
disappeared.

Best regards,

Rafael Laboissiere


* Winfried Boxleitner [2011-12-20 14:35]:

Package: mailagent
Version: 1:3.1-65-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

after upgrade to mailagent 1:3.1-72-0.1 the header of each individual
mail generated by mailagent misses the day and month string. e.g.:
"From mailagent 20 13:10:24 MET 2011" instead of:
"From mailagent Tue Dec 20 13:22:39 MET 2011"

as a consequence, my mail reader (alpine) does not recognize these
mails, and they are not displayed.

a downgrade to mailagent 1:3.1-65-2 restores normal operation.





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