[Dovecot] 1.0-test53 and 'Junk in start of group' messages

[Jethro R Binks]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On 29.11.2004, at 12:55, Nicolas.Kowalski at imag.fr wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 Nicolas.Kowalski at imag.fr wrote:
> > 
> > > I have several folders which cause error messages like 'Junk in start of
> > > group' in Pine when I read them. I googled a bit for this, and found
> > > that removing the index file should do the trick, but unfortunately, it
> > > does not.
> > 
> > This happens with badly formatted messages, for example with the To:
> > fields set to nothing (undisclosed-recipients), or the From: set to
> > "spammer <>" for example.
> 
> What Pine version? 4.44 didn't complain anything when I tried. But my 
> response to ENVELOPE is different than UW-IMAP, so maybe I'll have to 
> change it..

I have seen this too, currently running Pine 4.61 and dovecot-0.99.11 (and 
also seen in earlier pine and dovecot-0.99.10.4).  I never did pin down 
what it was about a message that caused it to happen, so Nicolas' 
information above is helpful.

I saw it quite recently when accessing an old folder (possibly one without 
an index), but going through recently accessed folders now I can't get the 
'junk in group' message to appear again.  Perhaps once the index is built 
it isn't a problem.

I think I used to see it a lot more with mail from a certain list.  Then, 
Pine would keep displaying messages of this sort, with about 5 secs 
between, and wouldn't allow any keystrokes.  Had to kill off the process. 
(I actually had to read those mailing list message digests in another 
client for a while to work around it).  I see it far less now than I used 
to; whether that's because dovecot upgrade fixed it, Pine fixed it, or the 
mailing list digest was fixed, I don't know ...

Not sure any of that helps.  I might do some more experimenting.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK