Update: I did a kernel trace to see what the imap process was doing, and it was retrieving headers, but to me it seemed like there were an awful lot of null (\0) and control characters among the headers. Excerpts of the trace below, actual mail address hidden to protect the innocent.
It's difficult to trace a folder that works, since that imap process doesn't live long enough for me to trace it. Hints on that, other than being really quick on the keyboard? ;-) The traces I've managed has nice plaintext commands like these: 2994 imap 1165779379.972538 GIO fd 1 wrote 23 bytes "24 OK NOOP completed.\r " 2994 imap 1165779379.972620 RET write 23/0x17 ... 2994 imap 1165779379.977092 CALL read(0,0x6be31b,0xce5) 2994 imap 1165779379.977179 GIO fd 0 read 29 bytes "25 UID fetch 3657:* (FLAGS)\r " 2994 imap 1165779379.977245 RET read 29/0x1d
However, these reads/writes are to other file descriptors (0 and 1) than the erraneous reads below (fd 8).
My system: # uname -ap OpenBSD casiopea.norrskenkonsult.com 3.7 GENERIC#312 sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5, MB86907 @ 170 MHz, on-chip FPU
# kdump -T -f imap.tracelog
9506 imap 1165775763.392950 EMUL "native"
9506 imap 1165775763.521181 CALL munmap(0xbef8000,0x100000)
9506 imap 1165775763.526077 RET munmap 0
9506 imap 1165775763.563349 CALL munmap(0xbeb7000,0x41000)
9506 imap 1165775763.564797 RET munmap 0
9506 imap 1165775763.564899 CALL munmap(0xbeb6000,0x1000)
9506 imap 1165775763.565074 RET munmap 0
9506 imap 1165775763.565192 CALL
pread(0x8,0x8580000,0x1000,0,0,0x141000)
9506 imap 1165775763.566267 GIO fd 8 read 4088 bytes
"\0\0\0\^\\0\0\0\0In-Reply-To:
1137747953.43d0a7f16017b@webbmail.thornqvist.se
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\0\0\0\0\0\v\0\0\0.\0\0\0\^V\0\0\0\0Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006
13:06:34 +0100
... continues like that until ...
9506 imap 1165775763.566267 GIO fd 8 read 8 bytes "\0\0\0\f\0\0\0H" 9506 imap 1165775763.566912 RET pread 4096/0x1000 9506 imap 1165775763.570811 CALL mmap(0,0x144000,0x3,0x1002,0xffffffff,0,0,0) 9506 imap 1165775763.570972 RET mmap 256024576/0xf42a000 9506 imap 1165775763.715347 CALL munmap(0x8481000,0x100000) 9506 imap 1165775763.719472 RET munmap 0 9506 imap 1165775763.757083 CALL munmap(0x843f000,0x42000) 9506 imap 1165775763.758449 RET munmap 0 9506 imap 1165775763.758569 CALL munmap(0x843e000,0x1000) 9506 imap 1165775763.758735 RET munmap 0 9506 imap 1165775763.758854 CALL pread(0x8,0xf56d000,0x1000,0,0,0x142000) 9506 imap 1165775763.759294 GIO fd 8 read 4088 bytes
...
/Peter
Peter Lindgren, dataingenjör E-post: peter "at" norrskenkonsult punkt com http://www.norrskenkonsult.com