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On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:45:03PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: >severity 504082 grave >thanks > >On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:13:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:44:00PM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> > On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> > >> >> I experienced some random corruption of mails recently, and found >> >> series of log entries like this: >> >> >> >> Oct 31 08:08:22 xayide deliver(jonas-debian): file maildir-util.c: >> >> line 275 (maildir_hash): assertion failed: (*s != '/') >> > >> > This means dovecot-uidlist file is corrupted. This crash was fixed for >> > v1.1 by >> > http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/5532bc0eb7bc >> >> I found corrupted uidlist files, yes. But when I deleted them, pretty >> quickly they got corrupted again. >> >> I have now compiled dovecot using a backported fixed flex, to see if >> that makes the corruption stop occurring. > >Do you have any information on whether this fixes things? It sounds like >this is a pretty serious problem (data corruption), so I'm raising the >severity of this bug. I intended to mark it grave initially, but couldn't satisfy the cross-examined questions of reportbug, I guess. Thanks for correcting! I must confess that I realized after filing the bug that it does not fit the description of the flex bugfix; It _is_ 64bit hardware (former VIA Epia box recently upgraded to an Atom-based mobo) but userland is running 32bit. This morning I experienced corruption again, so seems by first guess about flex is wrong! Seems Timo released a new version yesterday (perhaps sped up by this bugreport?) that might fix the issues I am experiencing. From the release notes: > The invalid message address parsing bug is pretty important since it > allows a remote user to send broken mail headers and prevent the > recipient from accessing the mailbox afterwards, because the process > will always just crash trying to parse the header. This is assuming > that the IMAP client uses FETCH ENVELOPE command, not all do. Note > that it doesn't affect versions older than v1.1.4. > > + dovecot -n and -a now prints some system information at > the top. > + More error/debug message logging improvements. > - pop3-login: Fixed assert-crash if a client sent > USER+PASS+USER+PASS commands in the same IP packet. > - Parsing an invalid message address like "From: (" caused > an assert-crash in v1.1.4 and v1.1.5. > - Folding whitespace wasn't handled correctly inside > quoted-strings, causing some messages to be parsed > incorrectly. > - mbox: Fixed saving messages that begin with a valid > From_-line. It wouldn't surprise me if offlineimap that I use is one of those clients using FETCH ENVELOPE... - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkMm3kACgkQn7DbMsAkQLi7agCghNpKWcPwsoCA0FS2UYLL8v+3 2pcAnRWxY7VtMVWhzuIiufha81x4eGWJ =aB7H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
