[dovecot] Re: problem with COPY?

[JP]

Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 19:53, JP wrote:
> > I have my mua (sylpheed-claws from cvs)
> 
> Just a few comments on that first:
>
> It's not considered good behaviour to ask STATUS of selected mailbox,
> some (old?) servers will break with that. There's also not much reason
> since the client already received everything except UNSEEN as reply to
> SELECT.
> 
> Why is it asking From twice? Why is it asking Status and X-Status at
> all? These are likely to be fields internally used by mbox format and
> shouldn't be sent client even if it asks it (well, Dovecot does send
> them currently, but it will be fixed). I don't know what generates
> Seen-field, but I think that doesn't belong to Sylpheed either.

seems there's still some bugs left to fix in sylpheed-claws too ;-)

as i'm not a developer of sylpheed-claws, i have no clue why it asks for
all those fields, and what it does with the information.

> > Mar  4 18:06:42 btp212 imap(jp): file index-save.c: line 61
> > (write_with_lf): assertion failed:(size > 0 && size <= SSIZE_T_MAX)
> > Mar  4 18:06:42 btp212 dovecot: child 6022 (imap) killed with signal 6
> 
> The message probably hasn't been read yet and Dovecot tries to write
> empty Status-header which triggers the assert. Stupid assert, I should
> have just ignored if size == 0. Fixed in CVS.

indeed, the error is gone. thanks alot.

regards, 

JP