Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:57:28 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem in mailutils/movemail under FreeBSD 9.1
Message-ID:  <51E39D58.3040801@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <u9hag0npcj.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <u9hag0npcj.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Am 12.07.2013 10:40, schrieb Olivier Nicole:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I moved my file server to 9.1, I am seeing a problem with
> mailutils/movemail:
> 
> movemail pop://on@mail.cs.ac.th file password
> 
> will hang is any message in the mailbox contains a NULL (0x00)
> character.
> 
> Thunderbird is unaffected.
> 
> movemail will hang in _tls_stream_push when mu_stream_sequential_write
> returns an error. So far I could not find the source code for
> mu_stream_sequential_write.

Can you run it under truss(1) to see what system calls it is using
around the time, or reinstall movemail under WITH_DEBUG=yes and use
gcore or attach a debugger to get a backtrace?

> If I use movemail with imap, it enters an infinite loop.
> 
> I still have to understand why there are messages with NULL inside,
> those messages appears to be manggled messages, composed of parts of
> other messages.

This might be mailbox file or file system corruption.





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?51E39D58.3040801>