[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#494418: Bug#494418: fetchmail loses mail when From address malformed

[Nico Golde]

Hi bruce,
* bruce robson <bns_robson at hotmail.com> [2008-08-09 17:38]:
> > severity 494418 important
> > # downgrading this bug referring to severity descriptions
> > thanks
> 
> I don't understand why you have downgraded the severity.
> From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
> grave:  makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss,
>     or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package.

Cause you make your problem sound more important than it's actually for other users:
"important
a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone."

Fits well to me, at least it's usable for me and a bunch of other users.
[...] 
> I don't know if the e-mail actually contains an invalid From address or if it contains a
> valid From address but fetchmail doesn't extract it correctly. However, that is a minor
> point. The main one being that an invalid From address should not cause loss of the
> e-mail.

You can see in your posted logs that it's an invalid From 
header unless this is a parsing bug in fetchmail which I 
don't believe at the moment.

Cheers
Nico
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