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Re: BarnOwl 1.10: a zephyr's CC: line is used as a log file name
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Clark)
Sun Nov 1 01:11:07 2026
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From: Daniel Clark <djbclark@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2026 01:10:50 -0400
To: barnowl-dev@mit.edu
Hello again,
One correction to my message of 2026-11-01, after reading upstream master:
The bug is in the 1.10 release only. Master replaced the C logger with
Perl code (perl/lib/BarnOwl/Logging.pm), and its sanitize_filename is
applied to every log file name, CC names included (log_filenames, then
get_filenames). So master is not affected, and no release has the fix.
I had not checked master when I wrote the first message. I did not
check releases before 1.10.
That makes a 1.10.1 release the natural fix for the 1.10 line: either
backport the Perl logging, or use the small patch in my first message
(the sender-name rules applied to every CC name in both loops of
logging.c). Debian ships 1.10-2, so a point release would also give
Debian something to take.
The temporary workaround for users in my first message stands (set
logging off, or loggingdirection out; the second is untested).
Daniel J. B. Clark
