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echo: hotdoged
to: SERGEY POZITURIN
from: VICTOR SUDAKOV
date: 2015-09-13 10:32:00
subject: Problem with tossing mail

* Originally in hotdoged
* Crossposted in ru.unix.ftn
* Crossposted in ru.husky
Dear Sergey,

12 Sep 15 13:17, you wrote to me:

 VS>> A point of mine is trying to use Hotdoged/2.11/Android and
 VS>> jNode/Android. I receive a .pkt from him, but both HPT 1.9 and
 VS>> catpkt consider the packet empty. However, when I look inside the
 VS>> packet with less or hd, I see the message there all right. What
 VS>> could that be? I have stored the example .pkt and am ready to
 VS>> produce it to anyone interested in the problem. Does anyone care
 VS>> to have a look, just let me know. By "catpkt" I mean that from
 VS>> Eduard Dulich (2:464/98).

 SP> Can you show the hpt error message from the log, please.

There is no hpt error message. It just says in the log '0 netmail messages'.

Thanks to Michael Dukelsky 2:5020/1042, he has already identified the problem.
The pkt file contains a packet password which is too long: 11 characters, which
causes the whole packet to be garbled and ignored.

Hotdoged should not have allowed a packet password longer than 8 characters.
When I removed the excess characters from the password in a hex editor
(allowing all the remaining bytes to shift), the packet became normal and
recognizable by the tosser.

This is probably a bug in Hotdoged.

Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
--- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20110223-b20110223
* Origin: Ulthar (2:5005/49)

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