[Dovecot] dovecot IMAP misserving problem?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sat Sep 13 12:50:18 EEST 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:43, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 06:31 Europe/Helsinki, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> > http://togami.com/~warren/archive/2003/evolution-1.4.4-crash.mbox
> > I suspect that dovecot-0.99.10 is misserving this message in some way
> > that is confusing some IMAP clients.  This behavior causes
> > evolution-1.4.4 to segfault, and squirrelmail-1.4.1 to be unable to 
> > read
> > the message.  The same message served by uw-imapd works works fine in
> > both evolution and squirrelmail.
> 
> Problem is that it contained message/rfc822 attachment which didn't 
> actually have any headers (Content-Type especially). Dovecot didn't 
> write empty envelope for it in BODY or BODYSTRUCTURE replies. It's 
> fixed in CVS, I think it was this change: 
> http://dovecot.fi/bodystructure.patch

Tested this patch with 0.99.10.  evolution-1.4.4 still segfaults, and
squirrelmail-1.4.1 similarly is unable to read the message. Mozilla
still works.

Please suggest anything more to test.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48418
Ximian evolution segfault bug report

Thanks,
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com



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