Re: BUG: Major problem, data loss

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.08.22 10:49 M . Thielker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I just wrote a rather long email, in a regular compose window. When I
> hit
> "Send", I was presented with the message "junk after literal", which
> does
> not appear anywhere in Balsa or libESMTP source code. After that, the
> compose window closed. My message was gone, it wasn't in the outbox,
> sentbox, draftbox or anywhere else.
> 
> The messages' content was rather emotional, impossible to recreate.
> It's
> lost, gone for good.
> 
> This cannot be allowed to happen. Even if there is some error internal
> to
> Balsa, a copy _must_ be saved in the draftbox. Always.
> 
> Melanie
> 

I'm sorry to hear of your loss.

I've  noticed that sometimes stuff like this gets stuffed into one of
/tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/tmp, etc.  Have you checked there?

The error appears to me to be a buffer overrun--the sort of message you
get from the CRT when a string continues on past \0.

jmc