IMAP error reported by server. Invalid body section.

Simon Matter simon.matter at invoca.ch
Fri Jun 22 17:10:13 EDT 2012


> On 06/22/2012 09:43 AM, Dave McMurtrie wrote:
>> On 06/22/2012 06:35 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 13:07 -0300, Rodrigo Abantes Antunes wrote:
>>>> The source from horde3 is exactly the same as horde4
>>>
>>> That is expected.  It isn't the message but the interpretation of the
>>> message.  These evil messages contain many named parts separated by a
>>> boundry (the boundry value is declared in the header of the message).
>>> Then parts of a message can refer to other parts of the message.  So
>>> either H4 can't correctly [or incorrectly!] parse the message into
>>> parts
>>> by boundry or one part references another part that isn't found.
>>>
>>> It would be useful to ask this question on the Horde / IMP mail list.
>>
>> I think this originated as a bug report to Horde and they think it's the
>> IMAP server's fault.
>>
>> Rodrigo, can you forward the message to me?
>
> Hi.  Rodrigo sent me the message.  I wanted to confirm that the MIME
> structure was correct so I used munpack which was able to successfully
> unpack all the message parts.  This isn't a guarantee that the MIME
> structure is correct, but at the very least I can't definitely say the
> message is malformed.
>
> I then imported the message into my mailstore.  reconstruct was not
> pleased with it from the start:
>
> Jun 22 15:29:48 cyrusbe-d04 reconstruct[28021]: ERROR: message has more
> than 1000 header lines, not caching any more

I did the same test on my box and reconstruct worked fine and I can view
the message with Squirrelmail and Thunderbird without any problems.

What's your version of cyrus-imapd you tested with? I have tested with a
2.4.16 server.

Regards,
Simon



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