Re: Exmh releases, and a large bunch of small changes in the exmh tree...

Brent Welch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exmh.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm about to submit my changes that eliminate the use of mimencode,
after a bit more testing.  I also tweaked the detached folder
and message display code so that (a) this feature is *not* the
default, and (b) the old window arrangement works.

>>>Kevin Cosgrove said:
 > 
 > On 26 July 2004 at 14:53, [email protected] wrote:
 > 
 > > 2b) the original mybogo.tcl talked about adding key bindings -
 > > anybody think that's a good/bad idea?  Easy enough to do, but
 > > consensus would be nice.
 > 
 > Spam related key bindings for things like "add sender to whitelist" 
 > would be wonderful.
 > 
 > > 3) I did a mass cleanup of a lot of places where we were doing
 > > things like 'exec chown' or 'exec rm', and changed them to
 > > equivalent native Tcl 'file' calls.  This was for 2 reasons:
 > > (a) just clean up and efficiency, and (b) (leading in to the
 > > next point...)
 > 
 > Great!
 > 
 > > 4) I did a fairly extensive security audit, and found some
 > > *nasty* bugs ...
 > >
 > > The security hole is pretty big - it can be triggered by a
 > > remote attacker with a specially crafted piece of malformed
 > > MIME.
 > >
 > > Given that the hole was a metamail-related one, maybe that's
 > > even more reason to find an alternate base64 {en,de}coder and
 > > heave all the Metamail code over the side.
 > >
 > > I think the hole is big enough to merit a 2.7.1 release at
 > > least - what do others think?
 > 
 > Yes, security problems are the best (sadly) reason to roll a
 > 2.7.1 version.  I'd like to see the easy to implement security
 > fixes happen as fast as reasonable and release before the harder
 > to implement fixes, just to give us a bit more safety while
 > waiting for the remaining updates.
 > 
 > There are my thoughts.
 > 
 > Thanks Valdis!
 > 
 > 
 > 
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