[mew-int 02038] Re: max-header-max-depth?

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos]

From: Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com>
Subject: Re: [mew-int 02036] max-header-max-depth?
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:43:56 +0900 (JST)

> If a MUA does not have any limit to parse a header and if it receives
> a message whose header is very long, it takes much time to parse the
> header. This is a kind of security hole.
>
> To prevent this, Mew implements a limit which can be set with
> mew-header-max-depth. Mew quits parsing fields over
> mew-header-max-depth.

Hey, thanks for the answer! I found out the mails that were causing
problems (they had a long list of "To:" addresses) and removed them from
the inbox. It's now working like a charm :-)

Rui