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

[Chris Wilson]

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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