An email received from this mailing list this morning caused my email program
(kmail) to lock up merely by reading the email. This has never happened before
and I’m curious as to whether anyone else had a problem with it.
I’ve had no problems with any other emails from this individual
(neopowerbrains at yahoo.com), but yahoo is notorious for being easy to hack into
user accounts and using them to send spam and/or malware. The only way to
clear the problem was to remove the message from kmail’s logs.
FWIW, I’m using kmail 1.12.4 on CentOS 6.5 (64 bit).
Did anyone else have any difficulty because of this, and is there a way to avoid
it in the future other than blocking emails from said individual?
Thanks,
Jeff
No issue on gmail reading his/her email.On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, j_post <j_post at pacbell.net> wrote:
An email received from this mailing list this morning caused my email
program
(kmail) to lock up merely by reading the email. This has never happened
before
and I’m curious as to whether anyone else had a problem with it.
I’ve had no problems with any other emails from this individual
(neopowerbrains at yahoo.com), but yahoo is notorious for being easy to hack
into
user accounts and using them to send spam and/or malware. The only way to
clear the problem was to remove the message from kmail’s logs.
FWIW, I’m using kmail 1.12.4 on CentOS 6.5 (64 bit).
Did anyone else have any difficulty because of this, and is there a way to
avoid
it in the future other than blocking emails from said individual?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Interesting. The problem was repeatable in that if I manually killed kmail,
then opened kmail again, I had no problem with other emails, but reading that
one would cause kmail to freeze again. Did this several times to be sure it
was only that particular email. The only way to clear it was to manually edit
that message out of the log file where current emails are stored.
Is anyone else using kmail (POP account) as opposed to a web-based mail
reader?
Thanks for the feedback.
JeffOn Saturday 08 February 2014 10:33:58 Alex Barry wrote:
No issue on gmail reading his/her email.
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, j_post <@Jeff_Post> wrote:
An email received from this mailing list this morning caused my email
program
(kmail) to lock up merely by reading the email. This has never happened
before
and I’m curious as to whether anyone else had a problem with it.
I’ve had no problems with any other emails from this individual
(neopowerbrains at yahoo.com), but yahoo is notorious for being easy to hack
into
user accounts and using them to send spam and/or malware. The only way to
clear the problem was to remove the message from kmail’s logs.
FWIW, I’m using kmail 1.12.4 on CentOS 6.5 (64 bit).
Did anyone else have any difficulty because of this, and is there a way
to avoid
it in the future other than blocking emails from said individual?
Thanks,
Jeff
SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org
Hello !
What was the subject of the message ? Did you try to analyze the
mail itself ? Was it a HTML mail ?
CU
It was an HTML mail, but I have kmail configured so that it doesn’t
automatically access links to web sites in any mail. I have to explicitly tell
it to do so if I so choose.
Unfortunately, due to having to rush off to an appointment, I didn’t copy and
paste the email data to a separate file so I could examine it later. I just
deleted it from the inbox file using a text editor. It was the last email sent
by neopowerbrains at yahoo.com.
It may seem that I’m overly concerned about this issue, but my email account
with pacbell.net (AT&T) is actually processed by yahoo and for a period of
more than six months my account was being used by some jerk in China to send
boatloads of spam all over the world. It took a huge amount of investigation
on my part just to convince AT&T that it was their problem. And then more
months for them to fix it. Yahoo sucks (yeah, I’m talkin’ to you Marissa
Mayer!)
Jeff
(Long time no see, Torsten. Hope you’re doing well.)On Saturday 08 February 2014 11:58:41 Torsten Giebl wrote:
Hello !
What was the subject of the message ? Did you try to analyze the
mail itself ? Was it a HTML mail ?
CU
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