Ubuntu
courier package

IMAP session crashes when i'm using UID FETCH (ENVELOPE) on some emails.

Bug #984705 reported by Mathias Lindberg
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courier (Debian)
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Bug Description

a4 UID FETCH 51 (ENVELOPE)
* BYE [ALERT] Fatal error: Invalid argument

Seems someone had the same error in the likn below.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=391071306152014%40web140.yandex.ru&forum_name=courier-imap

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

courier-imap:
  Installed: 4.9.1-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4.9.1-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4.9.1-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I expected an ok fetch, i got a fatal error.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: courier-imap 4.9.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-server 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-server x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 18 11:13:37 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: courier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.courier.imapd: 2008-08-21T21:53:05.910122

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Mathias Lindberg (shambulance) wrote :
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Mathias Lindberg (shambulance) wrote :

Seems to be fixed in 4.9.3

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in courier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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msp3k (peek-nimbios) wrote :

The following will allow one to compile courier 0.68.2, which supposedly does not suffer from this bug. It's untested though.

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msp3k (peek-nimbios) wrote :

Supposedly the latest 0.68.2 version of courier does not suffer from this bug. You can take the patch from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/courier/courier_0.66.1-1ubuntu4.diff.gz and apply it to the latest courier-0.68.1.tar.bz2 and compile to get packages that you can then install w/ dpkg. Attached is a patch that I created against 0.68.2. It compiles, but it's not yet tested, so caveat emptor.

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msp3k (peek-nimbios) wrote :

Please disregard my earlier post. This does not seem to fix the problem.

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Matthijs van Wageningen (matthys70) wrote :

When will this be fixed? Got the same issue :-(

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MikeM (michaelm) wrote :

This bug affects 12.04 (precise) too.

Any chance the Courier-IMAP 4.9.3 diff can be applied to the Ubuntu release to fix this bug?

From: http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/changelog.html
------------------
4.9.3

2011-05-22 Sam Varshavchik <email address hidden>

 * msgenvelope.c (msgappends): Fix a fatal error upon encountering
 8-bit header content. Heuristically try to interpret it as UTF-8, and
 just ignore invalid UTF-8 sequences.
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This is reported against Debian too:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=630166

tags: added: precise
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in courier (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in courier (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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