Weird behavior between Mulberry and Cyrus 2.1.12

[Ken Murchison]

Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:


> Hi,
> 
> I've got a sporadic problem with Mulberry and Cyrus. What happens is 
> that somehow the connection is dropped, but I'm not sure which side is 
> doing the dropping. Usually this results in Mulberry crashing. Sometimes 
> it also results in an inability to open my INBOX. In Mulberry the 
> mailbox icon will briefly change to green (to indicate it's open), but 
> change back to red almost immediately.
> 
> I've collected logging info both on the client and the server. First, 
> the client:
> 
> --> #5 Starting IMAP Session on Fri Oct 31 15:42:25 2003: imap.uni-koeln.de
> 
> --> #5.-1610571284 Fri Oct 31 15:42:25 2003
> * OK cyrus.rrz.uni-koeln.de Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.12-Invoca-RPM-2.1.12-3 
> server ready
> 

[...]

> --> #5.-1610571284 Fri Oct 31 15:42:26 2003
> A00008 THREAD REFERENCES us-ascii ALL
> 
> What's going on here?? Instead of a reply to the THREAD command the 
> server opens a new session? That's what it looks like ...

The server can't open a session with the client.

This looks like a bug in the Cyrus THREAD code, possibly caused by a 
poorly formatted message.  You could try updating to a newer version of 
Cyrus, or try applying this patch:

https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/cyrus/imap/index.c.diff?r1=1.191&r2=1.192&f=u

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