Re: [Dovecot] Line length limitation in dovecot leads to out-of-control process?

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:09, Amelia A. Lewis wrote:

After a little more exploration (grep ^To name-of-message | wc, on both machines) I seem to have found the issue: the original message has a To: line that is 16504 characters long. In the copy, it's 8192 characters long, and ends in the middle of a email@address (line in copy ends: user name *latter* that's causing dovecot to die a messy death. Or, actually, to turn into a very *rude* process that *doesn't* die.

Yes, it happens when the header name is larger than 8192 bytes. Dovecot wants to read more data, but the buffer is already full and it tries again.. Actually there is code to handle this, but it has a bug somewhere. I'll fix this and check that other parsers don't have the same problem.