Cyrus stops responding to imap:143 requests

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Wed Oct 27 18:27:47 EDT 2010


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:28:22PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Eric Luyten wrote:
> > On 2.3.15, we run into a very similar situation whereby I had made
> > a distinction between two services using a suffix composed of a
> > hyphen and some text, but Cyrus apparently only used the part before
> > the hyphen in its internal housekeeping.
> > Half of the time one service was responding, half of the time the
> > other one. Very annoying.
> 
> And an outright bug.  If it won't work, it shouldn't be accepted.
> 
> > To make things clearer :
> > 
> >    problem situation :
> > 
> >         popserv       cmd="pop3d -C ..."
> >         popserv-sec   cmd="pop3d -s -C ..."
> > 
> >    problemless situation :
> > 
> >         popserv       cmd="pop3d -C ..."
> >         popservsec    cmd="pop3d -s -C ..."
> > 
> > Finding the solution was helped by us noticing that syslogging was
> > also only done using the first part of the service name (popserv).
> 
> Please file a bug about this issue, if you haven't done so already.
> http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/

Feel free to mark it up pretty high for backport to 2.3.x and into 2.4
as well - that's an evil bug!

Bron.


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