Fatal error: word too long

[Marc Groot Koerkamp]

Erik Steffl said:
>    I got the following error:
>
> Jul 17 08:51:48 jojda cyrus/imapd[7560]: open: user erik opened In.~ SPAM
> ~
> Jul 17 08:51:50 jojda cyrus/imapd[7878]: Fatal error: word too long
> Jul 17 08:51:50 jojda cyrus/master[301]: process 7878 exited, status 75
> Jul 17 08:53:43 jojda cyrus/master[7908]: about to exec
> /usr/lib/cyrus/bin/imapd
> Jul 17 08:53:43 jojda cyrus/imaps[7908]: executed
> Jul 17 08:53:43 jojda cyrus/imapd[7908]: accepted connection
>
>    any ideas about what does it mean?
>

Yes, it happens when you send a query that's to long. I.e. a very large
msgs_id string in combination with FETCH or STORE.

The imap-client you are using should split up those imap-queries and use
smaller message sets.

Marc Groot Koerkamp.



>    I also got some other errors, not sure if they are related (Could not
> shut down filedescriptor 0: Bad file descriptor) but from MUA (Mozilla)
> it all looks ok - mail is being delivered (not sure if every single
> email is delivered), marked seen etc.
>
>    TIA
>
> 	erik
>
>