[Dovecot] 2.0.beta4, Panic: stream doesn't support seeking backwards

[Mark Sapiro]

On Sat Apr 24 12:27:40 EEST 2010, Juergen Daubert wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:14:28PM +0200, Juergen Daubert wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> got the following with beta4 while uploading messages from a local 
>> mbox to the dovecot server in my LAN, tested with mutt and sylpheed, 
>> the same action works with 1.2.11: 
>> 
>> 
>> Mar 29 13:42:46 [dovecot] imap(juergen): Panic: stream doesn't support
>> seeking backwards
> 
> FYI, got the same crash with a build from nightly 20100422. If you 
> need further informations, please let me know.


I have started seeing apparently the same crash. I have a new android
phone with K-9 imap client and I see this error in the log every time
the phone polls the server.

I upgraded to 2.0.beta5 yesterday and the crash is still happening.

The phone logs an error "readQuotedString(): end of stream reached", but
otherwise seems OK. I suspect this is a bug in the K-9, but it would be
nice if dovecot didn't crash.

I have no problems with other imap clients.

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