[Dovecot] dovecot IMAP misserving problem?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sat Sep 13 05:43:08 EEST 2003


On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 06:31 Europe/Helsinki, Warren Togami wrote:

> http://togami.com/~warren/archive/2003/evolution-1.4.4-crash.mbox
> I suspect that dovecot-0.99.10 is misserving this message in some way
> that is confusing some IMAP clients.  This behavior causes
> evolution-1.4.4 to segfault, and squirrelmail-1.4.1 to be unable to 
> read
> the message.  The same message served by uw-imapd works works fine in
> both evolution and squirrelmail.

Problem is that it contained message/rfc822 attachment which didn't 
actually have any headers (Content-Type especially). Dovecot didn't 
write empty envelope for it in BODY or BODYSTRUCTURE replies. It's 
fixed in CVS, I think it was this change: 
http://dovecot.fi/bodystructure.patch



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