239452 - pop3 transfer hangs if inbox contains a NULL

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 223062

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031114

Mail client becomes unable to download message if  a malformed piece of mail
contains a NULL. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send yourself email with a null in it.  Contact me, I can forward one.
2. Use pop3 to download.  Download subsystem hangs.
3.

Actual Results:  
Failed to download the mail.  The process hung, clicking on "Get Msgs" 
sometimes brings up a dialog box saying that in effect, it's already getting the
messages.

Expected Results:  
Downloaded the message(s).

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

Arghl. We've written this in red letters on the "Enter A Bug" page: "Also,
please do not file Mozilla bugs on copies of Mozilla older than two weeks -
first, download a newer build  and check that the problem is still present."

This bug has been fixed back in October 2003.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 223062 ***