bug: "invalid buffer size" with current CVS

[David Relson]

At 08:04 AM 1/31/03, Matthias Andree wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, David Relson wrote:
>
> > The interesting line in bogolexer's output is "Unknown mime type -
> > 'image/bmp;'".  Seems like at one time we were ignoring 
> attachments.  Seems
> > like that might be the right thing to do for images as bogofilter isn't
> > going to find any meaningful text inside them.  This may take the bulk of
> > the message away from bogofilter's scanning, but bogofilter _does_ still
> > socre the headers for spamicity.
> >
> > What's your take on this sitation?
>
>At a second glance, you're right, we shouldn't bother to decode stuff in
>unknown types. It's a waste of time. I can get Matt's mail parsed in c.
>1.1 s (Duron 700!) with the old code and in 0.093 s with all tests
>intact with the patch I've just committed to CVS, lexer.c v1.18.

Sounds like a nice patch.  I'm busy looking at Allyn Fratkin's latest 
problems which appear to be in the scripting/awk/sort arena, but I have to 
verify that's what is really happening.