On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, hex wrote:
Hello there,
I'm running OpenBSD-3.1-stable-i386 with the latest version of
Courier-IMAP installed from sources. I use The Bat! as client
software. Checking a certain account for new messages results in an
imapd process consuming all available CPU resources. The process
keeps running even after the connection is dropped. I believe there
is a bug in the code, but I haven't got much time to dig the sources,
learn the IMAP protocol and investigate the bug on my own. I have
archived the whole maildir at the moment the problem existed. I know
which message file, if removed, heals the problem, but I believe
that the problem might not be in that file. If this is a known
problem, please point me to the resource which describes the solution,
because trying to find one with Google didn't help. If there is no
know solution, then I'd like to know who to contact to discuss this
problem further, because I'd not like the situation to repeat. The
maildir contains a number of messages which I can not make publicly
available.
This appears to be a problem related to OpenBSD 2.9 and above with
courier-imap 1.3.12 and above. The problem appears to be attributed to an
8-bit character in the header. The IMAP process gets in an infinite loop
in rfc2047_encode_callback in rfc822/rfc2047.c.
I suspect the problem is in libc as staticaly linking imapd to libc from
OpenBSD 2.7 does not reveal the problem.
The person to contact regarding this issue I believe would be the port
maintainer.
Cheers,
Larry.
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