SUSE-RU-2012:1261-1: Recommended update for mailx

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   SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for mailx
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-RU-2012:1261-1
Rating:             low
References:         #753340 
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
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   An update that has one recommended fix can now be
   installed. It includes one version update.

Description:


   This update provides mailx 12.5, which contains the
   following fixes:

   * Better detection of base64 encoded text if acrossed a
   line
   * A null pointer dereference that lead to a
   segmentation fault when the user hit return at a yes/no
   question has been fixed
   * When both standard input and standard output refer to
   a terminal, ignore SIGPIPE
   * With the "-E" command line option or if the
   "skipemptybody" variable is set, outgoing messages that
   contain no text in their first or only part are not sent
   but silently discarded.
   * When an attachment that would have a "text/something"
   content type contains illegal byte sequences, it is now
   reliably sent out with the "application/octet-stream"
   content type instead
   * Fixed a bug that caused messages to be truncated with
   IMAP servers that use LF as line ending in message data,
   such as Google Mail (reported by Matthew L. Shobe).
   * Do not run filename expansion for IMAP or POP3
   mailboxes names, making it possible to select mailboxes
   that contain both brackets and spaces in their names
   (reported by Matthew L. Shobe).
   * Fixed the format of the timezone in "Date" header
   fields for zones in the Western Hemisphere whose offsets
   are not an integral number of hours (patch by Matthew
   Fischer).
   * Fixed a message corruption that occurred when the
   "inc" command was used with a mbox format mailbox after
   encrypted messages had been viewed (reported by Martin
   Neitzel).
   * Fixed a condition that caused mailx to hang when
   looking at a message, copying that message, and issuing a
   "z" command evaluating an uncached portion of an IMAP
   folder.
   * When the ORGANIZATION variable has an empty value, do
   not generate an "Organization:" header field. Previously,
   this condition resulted in mailx refusing to send mail

   In addition, handling of encoding in non-UTF8 locales was
   improved  (bnc#753340)


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-mailx-6787

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch slessp2-mailx-6787

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp2-mailx-6787

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 12.5]:

      mailx-12.5-1.3.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 12.5]:

      mailx-12.5-1.3.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 12.5]:

      mailx-12.5-1.3.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.novell.com/753340
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=355db93a5fb07cf0f70ddcd3e98e7e02