Created attachment 326377 [details] spam that breaks VM Description of problem: When I load the attached Japanese spam in VM, it bleeps and messages: Wrong type argument: stringp, =\?UTF-8\?Q\? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-vm-8.0.12-3.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emacs -q 2. M-x vm 3. v breakVM Actual results: vm bleeps and messages Wrong type argument: stringp, =\?UTF-8\?Q\? Expected results: vm loads the silly Japanese spam Additional info: The bug doesn't manifest the first time I load a message, nor does it manifest if I delete the data following the X-VM-v5-Data: header -- but if I delete the header, load the message, quit, then re-load the message, the bug manifests. In other words, I think VM is inserting something into that line which it can't read. Since reading silly Japanese spam isn't a high priority for me, this isn't an urgent bug -- more like a "FYI, this is broken". But sometimes one of these spams will get past spamassassin, and then if I don't delete it immediately, it makes my whole mailbox unreadable until I go in and manually delete the message in a regular (non-VM) emacs buffer.
Hm, thanks for the heads up. It's great you've got a recipe to reproduce it. Am afraid it's beyond my lisp skills to work this one out though (at least in the small amount of time I've had available to look at it), but I have reported it upstream.
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Closing this as UPSTREAM, as I have reported it there. However, VM is pretty much unmaintained upstream presently, so my recommendation would be to migrate away from using it... bitrot will only get worse with the move to emacs 23.