mail bomb

[Michael Hirsch]

One way to avoid the export/import issues is to not do it.  When I
move to a new computer I usually do a complete copy of my home
directory to the new machine.  Sometimes I just move the hard drive
between machines, sometimes I put the old disk in the new machine and
mount both disks, then copy the directory, and sometimes I do a
transfer over the network using a "flying tar" over ssh.

I have no faith in my ability to find everything I need to move over,
so I just bring everything.  It usually works well for me if I'm
careful to make sure that both machines are running the same software
before I transfer.  I've been doing this since at least 2005.

Michael

Michael

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 3:56 AM Ian Douglas <ian at zti.co.za> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Trying to move my life from old PC to new PC, but trouble with mail ...
>
> After exporting with mail exporter:
>
> ~/Documents/mailtest/mails/akonadi_maildir_resource_0 $ unzip -t mail.zip
> Archive:  mail.zip
> warning [mail.zip]:  4294967296 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
>   (attempting to process anyway)
> file #1:  bad zipfile offset (local header sig):  4294967296
>   (attempting to re-compensate)
>     testing: .Gmail.directory/Sent/cur/5546881_r0:2,S   OK
> error: not enough memory for bomb detection
> error: invalid zip file with overlapped components (possible zip bomb)
>
> UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler.
>
> Please advise. This issue was also in previous version of Kmail (month or 2
> back).
>
> Thanks, Ian
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