[Dovecot] [dovecot] dovecot freezes when trying to get mail from maildir with mail

[postmaster]

[ I'm sorry I can't reply in thread, but at present I'm reading email as 
plain text files directly off the file system - which is a PITA ;-) ]

Bjarne D Mathiesen
København N ; Danmark ; Europa
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denne besked er skrevet i et totalt M$-frit miljø
MacOS X 10.7.3 Lion ; 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ; 16GB 1067MHz DDR3

arrrrgh -- used pop3 instead of imap :-(

4604ds1-ynoe:~ root# gdb --args /macports/libexec/dovecot/imap -u 
postmaster at mathiesen.info
GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1518) (Sat Feb 12 02:49:13 
UTC 2011)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for 
shared libraries ..... done

(gdb) run
Starting program: /macports/libexec/dovecot/imap -u 
postmaster at mathiesen.info
Reading symbols for shared libraries ++++. done
Debug: auth input: postmaster at mathiesen.info uid=5000 gid=5000 
home=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/postmaster at mathiesen.info/
Debug: Effective uid=5000, gid=5000, 
home=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/postmaster at mathiesen.info/
Debug: maildir++: 
root=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/postmaster at mathiesen.info/, 
index=, control=, 
inbox=/Volumes/BrugerData/PostFix/mail/mathiesen.info/postmaster at mathiesen.info/, 
alt=
* PREAUTH [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID 
ENABLE IDLE SORT SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND 
UNSELECT CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE 
QRESYNC ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] 
Logged in as postmaster at mathiesen.info
a select inbox
^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0x90003afa in mach_msg_trap ()
(gdb) bt full
#0  0x90003afa in mach_msg_trap ()
No symbol table info available.
#1  0x90004267 in mach_msg ()
No symbol table info available.
#2  0x9001b431 in vproc_mig_look_up2 ()
No symbol table info available.
#3  0x9001b26a in bootstrap_look_up2 ()
No symbol table info available.
#4  0x9001b0e4 in bootstrap_look_up ()
No symbol table info available.
#5  0x9001af30 in notify_register_check ()
No symbol table info available.
#6  0x9001ada7 in notify_register_tz ()
No symbol table info available.
#7  0x9001a621 in tzsetwall_basic ()
No symbol table info available.
#8  0x90041903 in localtime ()
No symbol table info available.
#9  0x00092a2f in mail_index_update_day_headers ()
No symbol table info available.
#10 0x0008ec95 in mail_index_transaction_finish ()
No symbol table info available.
#11 0x0008d80a in mail_index_transaction_commit_v ()
No symbol table info available.
#12 0x0008dacf in mail_index_transaction_commit_full ()
No symbol table info available.
#13 0x0008db18 in mail_index_transaction_commit ()
No symbol table info available.
#14 0x00096434 in mail_index_sync_commit ()
No symbol table info available.
#15 0x00066f02 in maildir_sync_index_finish ()
No symbol table info available.
#16 0x00068376 in maildir_sync_context ()
No symbol table info available.
#17 0x000686f2 in maildir_storage_sync_init ()
No symbol table info available.
#18 0x000295fd in mailbox_sync ()
No symbol table info available.
#19 0x00007833 in cmd_select_full ()
No symbol table info available.
#20 0x00007d49 in cmd_select ()
No symbol table info available.
#21 0x00009f63 in client_command_input ()
No symbol table info available.
#22 0x0000a0c2 in client_command_input ()
No symbol table info available.
#23 0x0000a1d3 in client_handle_input ()
No symbol table info available.
#24 0x000095bd in client_input ()
No symbol table info available.
#25 0x001171a7 in io_loop_call_io ()
No symbol table info available.
#26 0x00118492 in io_loop_handler_run ()
No symbol table info available.
#27 0x00117148 in io_loop_run ()
No symbol table info available.
#28 0x0010425a in master_service_run ()
No symbol table info available.
#29 0x00013c5a in main ()
No symbol table info available.
(gdb) quit
The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
4604ds1-ynoe:~ root#