[Dovecot] breakin' dovecot

[Brian Candler]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:12:05AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> I know this is cruel, but I figured out a way to break dovecot, 
> temporarily.  The really great news is that it recovers nicely.
> 
> I'm also not sure if anything can be done about this, since I've seen 
> the same thing happen with courier-imap, uw-imap, and maybe cyrus-imap. 
>  I used cyrus-imap for such a short period of time that I didn't get to 
> really test it much.
> 
> how to...
> (this was done on a fast ethernet network)
> get a folder with some 1,000+ unread/unseen emails.
> pop in with mozilla mail and wait for it to download all the mail 
> information from ther server.
> press and hold the delete key.  After about 300 emails being deleted, 
> the imap server will appear to "freeze" and the "M" will keep cycling as 
> if it's doing something.

Sounds to me that you found a way to break Mozilla, not dovecot and
courier-imap and uw-imap identically :-)

Or do you have an example of an IMAP server which doesn't cause Mozilla to
freeze in this way?

Regards,

Brian.