Red faces all round?
Mavericks Mail's spam-spewing 'flaw' was scripted by red-faced user
FastMail, the cloudy messaging outfit that earlier this week proclaimed it had found a nasty bug in the way OS X Mavericks' Mail client talks IMAP, has retracted its analysis. The title of the new post, “Apple mail 'bug' turns out to be user script after all” tells you most of what you need to know about the situation. Here's …
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Thursday 31st October 2013 06:03 GMT Fazal Majid
I wouldn't be too hard on Fastmail. IMAP is a spectacularly poorly-specified protocol, and it doesn't help when some like GMail implement it in an even more spectacularly crackpot way. It was a fairly plausible assumption that changes in Mavericks Mail.app's IMAP implementation was causing problems.
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Thursday 31st October 2013 06:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
Isn't this where "I can/cannot replicate this error" comes from. You'd have honestly thought someone would try replicating it before hitting the post button.
Regardless, Apple should protect users from themselves (and potentially embarressing the company) by only allowing Cupertino certified scripts to be run!
Image is everything.
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Thursday 31st October 2013 08:47 GMT JeffyPoooh
Clue Number 1
How many users are affected by this catastrophic bug?
Just one.
Hmmm...
This falls mostly upon FastMail since they're the ones in the best position to count the affected users (1). The affected user can't poll the other users, nor can he see the lack of other problem reports.
FastMail := FAILMail
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Thursday 31st October 2013 08:48 GMT Frankee Llonnygog
Does FastMail only have this one Mac-using customer?
If not, the problem being confined to one user account might have suggested it isn't a generic Apple issue.
Anyway, well done the 'journalists' who disseminated this story without checking it - the truth would have attracted far fewer page views.