guam status

me at chrisfleming.org me at chrisfleming.org
Wed Nov 29 00:25:07 CET 2017


I've disabled Guam, I think most people have disabled guam in
production.

Cheers
Chris


On 27/11/17 at 09:28am, hede wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> is there anyone using guam? I'm testing a debian build of guam 0.9.2-3 and
> it seems there's no fault tolerance at all. It simply halts in many many
> cases - stalling the whole connection.
> 
> For example Claws Mail is sending special headers without a space after the
> colon (within the imap APPEND command), like starting with:
> 
> X-Claws-Account-Id:2
> 
> I can reproduce this with telnet / openssl s_client and guam is accepting
> "X-Claws-Account-Id: 2", it stores my demo mail. But without the white space
> it's simply stalling the connection - no reaction at all. Not even any error
> message. From that point on there's no reaction at all, not even to valid
> commands. The crazy thing is, other headers without a space are fine, like
> "X-Claws-Sign:0".
> 
> The bottom line is: currently it's impossible to send mail with claws mail
> because it cannot store any mail to guam, neither drafts nor queued mail.
> 
> I don't know if these type of headers are rfc conform, but even if not:
> stopping the connection like guam does on any kind of things it doesn't
> understand is a really bad habit. It's a fundamental paradigm to first
> implement some kind of error handling before any other feature gets
> implemented. This seems missing with guam.
> 
> regards
> hede
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