[Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

Discussion:

M***@picturemaxx.com

2015-06-05 07:54:23 UTC

Hello,

the SVN commit mail from the observium-svn list yesterday (2015-06-04 16:46:51 +0200) crashed our mail server,
most likely because the subject was way too long. I don't know, what script/hook you are using, but the standard
in RFC 2822, section 2.1.1. states that

"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"

The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

Thanks,

Michael Weinrich
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emilio brambilla

2015-06-05 08:03:27 UTC

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hello,

“Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF”
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don’t want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have a
look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

--
bye,
emilio

Joseph L. Brunner

2015-06-05 08:53:31 UTC

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Meanwhile,

Exchange 2010 keeps on chuggin'

-----Original Message-----
From: observium [mailto:observium-***@observium.org] On Behalf Of emilio brambilla
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 04:03 AM
To: ***@observium.org
Subject: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

hello,

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have a
look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

--
bye,
emilio

Simon Smith

2015-06-05 08:59:49 UTC

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meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)

Simon

Post by Joseph L. Brunner
Meanwhile,
Exchange 2010 keeps on chuggin'
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 04:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server
hello,

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs, but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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M***@picturemaxx.com

2015-06-05 09:45:56 UTC

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Point taken :)

Saying it crashed our mail server wasn't 100% correct, it just described it as easy as possible.
Nothing really crashed, we didn't lose any data and it was easily found and fixed (which we meanwhile did).
Next time I will wait until we fixed it, before writing such mails :-/

-- Michael

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: observium [mailto:observium-***@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Simon Smith
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 11:00
An: Observium Network Observation System
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)

Simon

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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Adam Armstrong

2015-06-05 11:21:50 UTC

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No desire to name and shame the mail server platform? :)

adam.

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On 05/06/2015 10:51:38, ***@picturemaxx.com <***@picturemaxx.com> wrote:
Point taken :)

Saying it crashed our mail server wasn't 100% correct, it just described it as easy as possible.
Nothing really crashed, we didn't lose any data and it was easily found and fixed (which we meanwhile did).
Next time I will wait until we fixed it, before writing such mails :-/

-- Michael

-----UrsprÃŒngliche Nachricht-----
Von: observium [mailto:observium-***@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Simon Smith
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 11:00
An: Observium Network Observation System
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)

Simon

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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Nikolay Shopik

2015-06-05 11:24:27 UTC

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Can you change subject to commit message? It would be more useful.

Post by Adam Armstrong
No desire to name and shame the mail server platform? :)
adam.
Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sent-from-mailbird]
Point taken :)
Saying it crashed our mail server wasn't 100% correct, it just described it as easy as possible.
Nothing really crashed, we didn't lose any data and it was easily found and fixed (which we meanwhile did).
Next time I will wait until we fixed it, before writing such mails :-/
-- Michael
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 11:00
An: Observium Network Observation System
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server
meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)
Simon

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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Adam Armstrong

2015-06-05 11:25:44 UTC

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I don't know, can I? Commit messages can have new lines in them...

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On 05/06/2015 12:24:38, Nikolay Shopik <***@inblock.ru> wrote:
Can you change subject to commit message? It would be more useful.

Post by Adam Armstrong
No desire to name and shame the mail server platform? :)
adam.
Sent from Mailbird [http://www.getmailbird.com/?utm_source=Mailbird&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sent-from-mailbird]
Point taken :)
Saying it crashed our mail server wasn't 100% correct, it just described it as easy as possible.
Nothing really crashed, we didn't lose any data and it was easily found and fixed (which we meanwhile did).
Next time I will wait until we fixed it, before writing such mails :-/
-- Michael
-----UrsprÃŒngliche Nachricht-----
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 11:00
An: Observium Network Observation System
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server
meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)
Simon

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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Nikolay Shopik

2015-06-05 11:28:22 UTC

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Include just first line, you still have full commit message in body anyway.

Post by Adam Armstrong
I don't know, can I? Commit messages can have new lines in them...
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Can you change subject to commit message? It would be more useful.

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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M***@picturemaxx.com

2015-06-22 07:54:17 UTC

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Just realized that I never answered that e-mail: it was IGetMail choking on too long subject lines :-/

Michael

Von: observium [mailto:observium-***@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Adam Armstrong
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 13:22
An: ***@observium.org
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

No desire to name and shame the mail server platform? :)

adam.

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On 05/06/2015 10:51:38, ***@picturemaxx.com<mailto:***@picturemaxx.com> <***@picturemaxx.com<mailto:***@picturemaxx.com>> wrote:
Point taken :)

Saying it crashed our mail server wasn't 100% correct, it just described it as easy as possible.
Nothing really crashed, we didn't lose any data and it was easily found and fixed (which we meanwhile did).
Next time I will wait until we fixed it, before writing such mails :-/

-- Michael

-----UrsprÃŒngliche Nachricht-----
Von: observium [mailto:observium-***@observium.org] Im Auftrag von Simon Smith
Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Juni 2015 11:00
An: Observium Network Observation System
Betreff: Re: [Observium] SVN commit mail crashed our mail server

meanwhile gmail keeps on chuggin' too :)

Simon

Post by M***@picturemaxx.com
"Each line of characters MUST be no more than 998 characters, and
SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF"
The subject of said mail was way over 2000 characters. For now I
unsubscribed from that list because I don't want to kill
e-mail for everybody in the office once in a while, but can you have
a look into this issue and tell me when it is fixed,
so I can resubscribe?

hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs,
but when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than
rfc-conform lines, I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a
very sipmle DOS) and not write it on public mailinglists untill it's
fixed;
:)
--
bye,
emilio
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David Brodbeck

2015-06-11 00:22:00 UTC

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Post by emilio brambilla
hem... ok what RFC says, and OK svn commit mail should respect rfcs, but
when I have a mda (or mta?) which crashes on longer than rfc-conform lines,
I will fix it as soon as possible (I'm open to a very sipmle DOS) and not
write it on public mailinglists untill it's fixed;

Crashes on overly-long input always make me turn a little pale, because
they're often a sign of a buffer-overrun code execution exploit waiting to
happen.

--
D. Brodbeck
System Administrator, Linguistics
University of Washington
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