[Dovecot] Error: FETCH [1] for mailbox badbox UID 1 got too little data: 2 vs 4 (fwd)

[Timo Sirainen]

I think I fixed this in v2.0.10. Hmm. Yeah. I think http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/079a81fb5117 fixed it.

On 4.3.2011, at 22.50, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Any thoughts about this error? Should I file a bug report somewhere?
> 
> Cheers, Chris.
> 
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Chris Wilson wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I can send myself a test message that causes Dovecot to crash when I open
>> it in Alpine, with the following error:
>> 
>> Jan 12 14:52:52 one-mail dovecot: imap(chris): Error: FETCH [1] for
>> mailbox badbox UID 1 got too little data: 2 vs 4
>> Jan 12 14:52:52 one-mail dovecot: imap(chris): Error: Corrupted index
>>  cache file /home/chris/mail/.imap/badbox/dovecot.index.cache: Broken
>>  MIME parts for mail UID 1
>> Jan 12 14:52:52 one-mail dovecot: imap(chris): Disconnected: FETCH failed
>>  bytes=485/1394
>> 
>> I can do this as follows:
>> 
>> $ touch ~/mail/badbox
>> $ echo test | /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda -m badbox
>> $ cat ~/mail/badbox
>> >  From MAILER-DAEMON  Wed Jan 12 14:52:29 2011
>> test
>> X-IMAPbase: 1294843949 0000000001
>> X-UID: 1
>> Status:
>> X-Keywords:
>> Content-Length: 1
>> 
>> And then when I try to open badbox in Alpine (over IMAP), and then open
>> this email, I get the error above, and the connection is aborted.
>> 
>> I expect that the "test" line is not a valid header, but dovecot should
>> not crash when opening it.
>> 
>> Cheers, Chris.
>> 
> 
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