Recommended update for mailx
SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for mailx
This update provides mailx 12.5, which contains the
following fixes:
* Better detection of base64 encoded text if acrossed a
line
* A null pointer dereference that lead to a
segmentation fault when the user hit return at a yes/no
question has been fixed
* When both standard input and standard output refer to
a terminal, ignore SIGPIPE
* With the "-E" command line option or if the
"skipemptybody" variable is set, outgoing messages that
contain no text in their first or only part are not sent
but silently discarded.
* When an attachment that would have a "text/something"
content type contains illegal byte sequences, it is now
reliably sent out with the "application/octet-stream"
content type instead
* Fixed a bug that caused messages to be truncated with
IMAP servers that use LF as line ending in message data,
such as Google Mail (reported by Matthew L. Shobe).
* Do not run filename expansion for IMAP or POP3
mailboxes names, making it possible to select mailboxes
that contain both brackets and spaces in their names
(reported by Matthew L. Shobe).
* Fixed the format of the timezone in "Date" header
fields for zones in the Western Hemisphere whose offsets
are not an integral number of hours (patch by Matthew
Fischer).
* Fixed a message corruption that occurred when the
"inc" command was used with a mbox format mailbox after
encrypted messages had been viewed (reported by Martin
Neitzel).
* Fixed a condition that caused mailx to hang when
looking at a message, copying that message, and issuing a
"z" command evaluating an uncached portion of an IMAP
folder.
* When the ORGANIZATION variable has an empty value, do
not generate an "Organization:" header field. Previously,
this condition resulted in mailx refusing to send mail
In addition, handling of encoding in non-UTF8 locales was
improved (bnc#753340)
| Announcement ID: | SUSE-RU-2012:1261-1 |
| Rating: | low |
| References: | #753340 |
| Affected Products: |
An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed. It includes one version update.
Description:
This update provides mailx 12.5, which contains the
following fixes:
* Better detection of base64 encoded text if acrossed a
line
* A null pointer dereference that lead to a
segmentation fault when the user hit return at a yes/no
question has been fixed
* When both standard input and standard output refer to
a terminal, ignore SIGPIPE
* With the "-E" command line option or if the
"skipemptybody" variable is set, outgoing messages that
contain no text in their first or only part are not sent
but silently discarded.
* When an attachment that would have a "text/something"
content type contains illegal byte sequences, it is now
reliably sent out with the "application/octet-stream"
content type instead
* Fixed a bug that caused messages to be truncated with
IMAP servers that use LF as line ending in message data,
such as Google Mail (reported by Matthew L. Shobe).
* Do not run filename expansion for IMAP or POP3
mailboxes names, making it possible to select mailboxes
that contain both brackets and spaces in their names
(reported by Matthew L. Shobe).
* Fixed the format of the timezone in "Date" header
fields for zones in the Western Hemisphere whose offsets
are not an integral number of hours (patch by Matthew
Fischer).
* Fixed a message corruption that occurred when the
"inc" command was used with a mbox format mailbox after
encrypted messages had been viewed (reported by Martin
Neitzel).
* Fixed a condition that caused mailx to hang when
looking at a message, copying that message, and issuing a
"z" command evaluating an uncached portion of an IMAP
folder.
* When the ORGANIZATION variable has an empty value, do
not generate an "Organization:" header field. Previously,
this condition resulted in mailx refusing to send mail
In addition, handling of encoding in non-UTF8 locales was
improved (bnc#753340)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-mailx-6787 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch slessp2-mailx-6787 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:
zypper in -t patch sledsp2-mailx-6787
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 12.5]:
- mailx-12.5-1.3.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 12.5]:
- mailx-12.5-1.3.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 12.5]:
- mailx-12.5-1.3.1
References:
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/753340
- http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=355db93a5fb07cf0f70ddcd3e98e7e02