RFC 3501 violation in FETCH BODY responses

Hi there,

Quoting RFC 3501 sec. 7.4.2 “FETCH Response” (data item BODYSTRUCTURE):

“A body type of type MESSAGE and subtype RFC822 contains,
 immediately after the basic fields, the envelope structure, body
 structure, and size in text lines of the encapsulated message.”

According the ABNF (RFC 3501 sec. 9) the envelope structure is that of the ENVELOPE FETCH data item, and the env-{from,sender,reply-to,to,cc, bcc} fields are non-space-separated address lists:

body-type-msg = media-message SP body-fields SP envelope SP body SP body-fld-lines
envelope      = "(" env-from SP … SP env-to SP … ")"
env-from      = "(" 1*address ")" / nil
env-to        = "(" 1*address ")" / nil

While this is indeed the case for ‘FETCH … (ENVELOPE)’, for ‘FETCH … (BODY)’ dovecot 2.2.25 adds a space between addresses of an address list of the envelope structure of an encapsulated MESSAGE/RFC822 message.

See the attached patch to ‘src/lib-imap/test-imap-bodystructure.c’, which currently (2.2.25) fails as follows

test-imap-bodystructure.c:122: Assert failed: strcmp(str_c(str), testmsg_body) == 0
test-imap-bodystructure.c:129: Assert failed: strcmp(str_c(str), testmsg_bodystructure) == 0
imap bodystructure parser ............................................ : FAILED

because the ‘env-to’ field of the envelope structure of the encapsulated MESSAGE/RFC822 message is printed as

((NIL NIL "sub-to1" "domain.org") (NIL NIL "sub-to2" "domain.org"))

while it should be

((NIL NIL "sub-to1" "domain.org")(NIL NIL "sub-to2" "domain.org"))

After a quick look at the source, this seems to be due to src/lib-imap/imap-bodystructure.c:imap_write_list, which always separates list items with spaces. In the case of an envelope, only the top-level list should be space-separated. Indeed, not adding a space between items of type IMAP_ARG_LIST in the recursive call makes the test pass again.

Cheers,

Guilhem.