Neomail ditching message bodies when transferred to saved folder

[drose25]

I have a client who has transferred mail to the saved-messages folder in Neomail. For some reason now, all of his messages seem to have lost the actual content. Only the header and a message like this:

--0-1302359868-1063642539=:33659
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1310662797-1063642539=:33659"

--0-1310662797-1063642539=:33659
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Is displayed when viewing a message.

What's up?!

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[drose25]

This may be a case of folder corruption bug as outlined in the message below. Any idea if this has been corrected in Cpanel's version?

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* And Why is this happening?

This misterious folder corruptions are caused because there is a bug in
tell() in perl 5.8 which would return wrong offset if it is called after
open(F, ">>file");

This is a serious bug which may corrupt the folder file in some cases when
using perl 5.8 (eg: RedHat 8.0 ships it by default)


* The Solution:

There is only a quick fix, but it implies changing the code. I would not
call it solution but a safer way of programming...

Using
open(F, "+>>file"); # same behavior as "a+" on "C"'s fopen()
instead of
open(F, ">>file");
seems to address the issue.

A way to do this changes quickly, will be:

# perl perl -pi'.bak' -e 's#>>#+>>#gs' neomail.pl neomail-prefs.pl

this will replace any occurances of ">>" with "+>>", and will save a copy
of the files with the '.bak' appended to its name.


Watch the complete perl bug report here:

http://rt.perl.org/rt2//Ticket/Display.html?id=18711


Regards,

--
Paulo Matos

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[rhood]

We are having the same issue here, however the script appears to break webmail entirely (had to restore the files it modified from backups).

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[rhood]

Is it safe to go and download/install Perl 5.6.1 from layer1.cpanel.net on a RedHat 8 machine with CPanel? I did this on a test machine and it seemed fine, but this is a production machine so I want to be absolutely sure nothing goes wrong in any way.

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