Subject: Re: pcpine 4.58 crashes

From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:03:47 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Cornelius C. Noack wrote:

> After updating from 4.56 to 4.58 I find that pcpine crashes
> whenever I try to open a message with an attachment of reasonable
> size, with the error message:
>          " incomplete SecBuffer exceeds maximum buffer size"

This almost certainly related to the bug in Microsoft's SSL code, which
PC-Pine makes use of.  We've added the feature called
"quell-ssl-largeblocks", where setting that tries to work around most of
the places where the bug is likely to happen, and this feature was
enhanced between 4.56 and 4.58 (though it surpises me that you get a crash
in 4.58 that you wouldn't get in 4.56, is that really the case?).

Of course, ideally Microsoft would issue a patch to fix this bug.  It's
been over two years and still no fix, but there are rumors that it might
be deemed worthy enough to grace the next service pack release.

Jeff

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From: Kenneth Crudup <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:15:21 -0800 (PST)

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jeff Franklin wrote:

> PC-Pine makes use of.

> Of course, ideally Microsoft would issue a patch to fix this bug.

Let me guess: they've provided a workaround for it in "MS LookOut!"?

	-Kenny

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From: Jeff Franklin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:33:04 -0800 (PST)

> Let me guess: they've provided a workaround for it in "MS LookOut!"?

Supposedly the problem still exists in MS Exchange.  I don't know why it's
not as common a problem for clients talking to an exchange server.

Jeff

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From: "Cornelius C. Noack" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:32:34 +0100 ((MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit)

I use pcpine 4.58, and, for longer replies to messages, my usual (ASCII)
text editor (TSE) as alternate editor.

Whenever I do that (while the message I reply to is still in the INBOX)
and then send the reply, I get a (warning? error?) message:

            [Mail Folder "INBOX" closed due to access error]

But apparently the reply got sent alright. If then I decide to save the
original message, I get the error message

                       [Message to save shrank!]

(rather frightening words).
Then after closing pine and reopening it, everything is OK.

This is just a bit of a bother, nothing serious, but still:

      (i) what does that mean: "message shrank" ?

     (ii) Do I misunderstand --and hence misuse -- something ?
          (what I can think of is that I should FIRST save the message
          to some other folder and then reply from there. But that would
          be slightly unfunctional: often I only decide after answering
          the message that I would want to save it).

Anybody have an answer?

ccn.
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