Date: 23 May 2001 08:33:09 -0000 From: avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/27565: [ports update] chinese/pine add 'Missing Mail' notification Message-ID: <20010523083309.54064.qmail@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
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>Number: 27565 >Category: ports >Synopsis: [ports update] chinese/pine add 'Missing Mail' notification >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: maintainer-update >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 23 01:40:01 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Tai-hwa Liang >Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 >Organization: Multimedia Laboratory at Yuan Ze University, Taiwan, R.O.C.. >Environment: System: FreeBSD www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0 i386 >Description: According to Pine document, it seemed that Pine tends to move all mail from system mailbox(under /var/mail on FreeBSD) to ~/mbox if ~/mbox does exist. It may confuse users that using both POP3 and Pine to retrieve/read their mail(some POP3 daemons doesn't care about ~/mbox). Above scenario was called "Missing Mail" problem in Pine help. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: There are two approaches to work around this problem: 1. The admin can add a "disable-these-drivers=mbox" to disable mbox moving feature permanently. 2. Replace current running POP3 daemon with a "Pine compatiable" POP3 server such as ipop3d shipped with Pine. Here we just provide users some relevant information about where to find the information on resolving this problem. Thanks to Li Yeh-Li <nonel@mail.hchcc.gov.tw> who pointed me this information. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: --- pkg-install.old Wed May 23 15:19:50 2001 +++ pkg-install Wed May 23 15:19:59 2001 @@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ /usr/bin/dialog --yesno "SECURITY NOTE: The pine software has had several remote vulnerabilities discovered in the past, which allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as you on your local system, by the action of sending a specially-prepared email. All such KNOWN problems have been fixed, but the pine code is written in a very insecure style and the FreeBSD Security Officer believes there are likely to be other undiscovered vulnerabilities. Do you wish to proceed with the installation of pin e anyway?" 12 70 || /usr/bin/false +/usr/bin/dialog --msgbox "Be sure to consult the Pine help for section about 'Information on mbox driver' before using Pine with /usr/bin/mail on a POP3 server." 7 70 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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