Re: Invalid Email Addresses cause 4.0.8 to stall

This is a common (and irritating) problem.

--On November 15, 2011 9:00:14 AM +0000 Raza Rizvi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just a heads up that I have now received two pieces of spam which appear
> to have invalid From: addresses in the header which cause Mulberry to
> hang.
>
> The initial part of the inbound Russian message From: field is :
>
> Исаков
> <=?koi8-r?B?IOHMxcvTxcXXIDw9P2tvaTgtcj9CPzVzWEUwU0RoenNuVHljM1AxeQ==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?QThQVDlyYjJrNExYSS9RajlKVUV4YWQzTklUSG81WTJkUVJBPT0/PQ==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?CT0/a29pOC1yP0I/TUM5aE1qbHdUME14ZVZBd1NTOU9SMDQyVW01cg==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?TlZWRldqVmhWVkoxVFVoT2RWTklielZVUVE9PT89CT0/a29pOC1yPw==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?Qj9QVDAvUFFrOVAydHZhVGd0Y2o5Q1AxZFlhR3RaTW1SUlVrUkJkbA==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?bFVTVFZqUlRsRVRWaHNVUT09Pz0JPT9rb2k4LXI/Qj9UVVZyZGxRdw==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?VlhoVFZtUkpZVWR3YTAxdFRYZFpNMk01VUZRNE9VTlJQVDAvUFFrOQ==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?UDJ0dmFRPT0/PQk9P2tvaTgtcj9CP09DMXlQMEkvVUZRNWNtSXlheg==?=
> =?koi8-r?B?
>
> and it carries on for another 200 lines.
>
> My only option was to delete it from a webmail client (actually I have
> put it somewhere safe in case anyone wants to spend more time looking at
> the cause).
>
> Raza
>



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