Re: Fwd: report 2/3: unsafe handling of excessive IMAP message counts

"Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:32:38 +0800

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 07:34:01AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
>I think the important part in the original message is:
>| A malicious IMAP server sends a large message count that
>
>Exiting is totally fine when we detect we talk to a malicious server.
>But the error message is not good. What is the overflow? Where is it
>coming from? The message should give the user a hint that the server is
>reporting a unplausible message count.

That's good feedback.  I'll take a look at improving the error message 
after the release.

Thank you!

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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