[Dovecot] possible dovecot problem (fwd)

Mark E. Mallett mem at mv.mv.com
Fri May 23 12:20:44 EEST 2003


On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 12:19:56PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 04:30, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> > > Ah, yes. The "end of header" was treated as duplicate of last header
> > > except with empty value.
> > I don't follow- what duplicates?  It looks like a perfectly ordinary
> > header to me, what am I missing?
> 
> Not real duplicate. But Dovecot was treating like the last header always
> appeared twice, but second time without value. Like:
> 
> .. headers ..
> To: foo at bar
> To:
> 
> .. body ..

Oh, I see what you mean.  So if it happened that "To" came last, there
was a problem- but if something innocuous was last, there was not?

Interesting.  The patch does appear to fix the reported issue.

BTW when I first applied the patch, the imap server hung trying to fetch
the body.  Cleared the .imap* files and this did not happen again.

mm


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