[Users] [Bug 3457] broken winmail.dat attachments cause crash

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http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3457

--- Comment #5 from MD <crxssi at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> These attachments have two problems:
> 1. they have spurious data appended and prepended to them

You have access to cooler tools than I :)

> 2. when the spurious data is removed it turns out that they are not tnef
> after all.

That somehow doesn't surprise me.  I can't imagine how the spurious data got in
there.

> Claws should not crash in this case, but these mails are broken. ytnef also
> segfaults on them.

I tried just a "cat winmail.dat | tnef -t" command on one of them and it
doesn't segfault or crash, but it didn't return anything on stdout either like
it is supposed to (unless I add the --debug).  So it is certainly munged.

I did some additional research, unfortunately we *HAVE* to use the tnef plugin,
because outside people really do send us stuff in that horrible method (rather
than just attaching files directly).  I am really caught between a rock and a
hard place now.

Would this issue really only be with the tnef plugin or ALSO with claws?  Yes,
the plugin depends on ytnef which is crashing, and that causes the plugin to
fail... that is one bug (which I think is higher than "normal" priority).  But
Claws should not crash in this case, wouldn't that be another bug?  Should I
create a new one for that?

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