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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