The same bug is apparently in version 3.x as some funny person at my office just exploited it... At 05:04 AM 3/29/98 -0500, whiz wrote: >Eudora Pro 4.0 crashes when it trys to retrieve a message that has an >attachments with an extra long filename. The length of the filename >effects the type of crash that will occur. A filename of greater then 233 >characters in length will cause an illegal operation. However, a >bluescreen of death occurs and a reboot is necessary if the filename is >exactly 233 characters. > >Heres how to recreate it on Windows 95. >1. Create a file with a long name(>=233). >2. In Eudora, send an e-mail to your self with the new file attached. >3. Now check your mail, Eudora should crash when it starts to download the >attachment. > >And since Eudora crashes before it deletes the message from the server you >will have to do this in order to check your mail again: >1. Telnet to your mail server. >2. Type USER yourusername, hit enter. >3. Type PASS yourpassword, hit enter. >4. Type DELE 1, hit enter. >5. Type QUIT, hit enter. > >-whiz > > Lewis Eatherton Network Architect SegaSoft, Inc
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