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From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
Subject: Re: Assert in imap-parse-body, dovecot and rfc822 multipart messages
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:59:51 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20060917T195501-345@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87slixcird.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>

Simon Josefsson <jas <at> extundo.com> writes:

> I'm afraid I don't have time to debug this, but if someone else wish
> to help, a hint is to M-x edebug-defun RET imap-parse-body RET, place
> the cursor on first '(' at the 'BODY (("text"' portion and do M-:
> (imap-parse-body) RET.  You'll have to single-step through the parser.
> 
> To be able to understand what the problem is, you'd probably want to
> verify manually that the dovecot output is conforming to the IMAP spec
> first.  See RFC 3501.

I got this tracked down and it was a bug in how dovecot (1.0 beta 2) handled
nested MIME multipart mails.  It is at least fixed in RC 2, so I just upgraded
and the problem went away.

Thanks a lot for all help. :-)

- tfheen





      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-17 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-10 21:15 Tollef Fog Heen
2006-09-11 16:41 ` Manuel Werlberger
2006-09-11 18:58 ` Assert in imap-parse-body, dovecot and rfc822 multipart Jouni K Seppanen
2006-09-12 13:32 ` Assert in imap-parse-body, dovecot and rfc822 multipart messages Simon Josefsson
2006-09-17 17:59   ` Tollef Fog Heen [this message]

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