Re: [Pan-devel] strange post

[Christophe Lambin]

On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 08:27, William MacCracken wrote:
> In alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer.repost a message, REQ: Please 
> Post Buffy 4x16 Who Are You - Thank You Much!, 10 lines by "someone" on 
> 07.26 19:59 locks up Pan.

Seeing this too. The cause is that the message has no body:

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Path:
sisyphus.news.be.easynet.net!feed1.news.be.easynet.net!easynet-quince!easynet.net!cox.net!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
From: <address@hidden>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer.repost
Subject: REQ: Please Post Buffy 4x16 Who Are You - Thank You Much!
X-Newsreader: Newsbin Pro
Lines: 10
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 00:59:59 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.201.248.176
X-Complaints-To: address@hidden
X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1027731599 151.201.248.176 (Fri, 26 Jul
2002 20:59:59 EDT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:59:59 EDT
Xref: sisyphus.news.be.easynet.net
alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer.repost:546414

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which causes an infinite loop in GMime's parser_step_from (in
gmime-parser.c): it continuously tries to add more data through
parser_fill. I'd look closer, but it's sunday afternoon, the sun is out
and parser_fill's code is giving me a headache :)

Regards,
Christophe