[Dovecot] Some users cannot read mail: assertion failed

[Robert Munteanu]

> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 15:24, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> 
>> lynx imap(gheorghe.bancos): file buffer.c: line 357
>> (buffer_set_start_pos): assertion
>> failed: (abs_pos <= I_MIN(buf->used, buf->limit))
>> lynx dovecot: child 1823 (imap) killed with signal 6
>> 
>> The problems have been reported with both MS Outlook and SquirrelMail.
>> 
>> 
>> What causes this problem and how can I fix it?
>> 
> 
> Could you get a gdb backtrace of it? See
> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
> 
> 
> Or can you send the mail that causes it to crash? That error alone
> doesn't really help.
Here comes the mail - this one is really weird becase simply copying the Maildir to a test user and reading it like that worked ... Anyway:

It was located in /home/gheorghe.bancos/Maildir/cur/1089379804.23861_2.lynx.aiesec.ro:2,

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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:30:03 +0300 (EEST)
Subject: Salutare dragii mei, din Viena!!!
From: "Mihaela Vacaru" <mihaela.vacaru at aiesec.ro>
To: news at aiesec.ro
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Thanks,

Robert