missing uniqueid? [was: Re: 3.0.2: info [mailbox] failed on murder, Internal error: assertion failed]

Ken Murchison murch at fastmail.com
Sat Aug 12 09:43:44 EDT 2017


The MUPDATE protocol has no facility to pass mailbox uniqueids back and 
forth.  It only deals with mailbox names, locations, and ACLs.


On 08/11/2017 11:08 AM, Stephan Lauffer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Zitat von StHelloephan Lauffer <lauffer at ph-freiburg.de>:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> In our test environment we have two 3.0.2 backends and a 3.0.2 
>> mupdate/frontend server.
>>
>> The one and only mailbox is user.test, We can xfer this mbox between 
>> the backends, so far so good.
>>
>> If we ask the frontend about the mailbox the imapd session crashes. A 
>> simple "lm" is ok.
>>
>> May we have a bug in our configs which may cause this..?
>>
>> ---------- cyrus Thu Aug 10 16:32:57 2017
>>
>> <1502375577<4 RLIST "" ""
>>> 1502375577>* LIST (\Noselect) "." ""
>> 4 OK Completed (0.000 secs)
>> <1502375581<5 GETANNOTATION user.test "*" ("value.priv" "value.shared")
>>> 1502375581>* BYE Fatal error: Internal error: assertion failed: 
>>> imap/annotate.c: 1680: state->mailbox
>
> In imap/mboxlist.c mboxlist_parse_entry() we except to get the 
> uniqueid if we found a extended mboxlist entry.
>
> Indeed the entry is extended on the mupdate servers mboxlist and on 
> the backend server. But the mupdate server has no uniqueid.
>
> I guess this is the problem here. state->mailbox fails in annotate.c 
> before we test if uniqueid is set there:
>
> Line 1680 in annotate.c...:
>
>     assert(state->mailbox);
>
>     if (state->mailbox->uniqueid)
>         buf_appendcstr(&value, state->mailbox->uniqueid);
>
> Btw: Is there a good reason not to store die ID in the mailboxes.db.
>
> output of strings on the backend...:
> # strings /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
> twoskip file
> 6user.test%(A %(test lrswipkxtecdan) I 02tws5d0y4ecnp9rhgy66p5m P 00 V 
> 1502362835 F 1 M 1502374944)
>
> output of strings on the mupdate server:
> strings /var/lib/imap/mailboxes.db
> twoskip file
> user.test%(A %(test lrswipkxtecdan) P 00 S mailsg-hx T r M 1502449874)
>
>
>

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Kenneth Murchison
Cyrus Development Team
FastMail Pty Ltd



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