[horde] Blank page after login

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Philipp Fäustlin <philipp.faeustlin at uni-hohenheim.de>:

> Am 05.02.2013 10:42, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>>
>> Zitat von Philipp Fäustlin <philipp.faeustlin at uni-hohenheim.de>:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> One of my users gets a blank page after login to webmail on every
>>> system we tried.
>>>
>>> I have tried it even on a test system with a empty database and horde
>>> in the newest version.
>>>
>>> The login method is imap auth and the horde.log says "Login successful".
>>>
>>> In httpd/error.log I found an
>>> PHP Fatal error:  Method Horde_Imap_Client_Mailbox::__toString() must
>>> not throw an exception in /usr/share/pear/Horde/Imap/Client/Socket.php
>>> on line 1284, referer: http://WEBMAIL/login.php
>>>
>>> I think this error is the reason for blank page, but I don't know what
>>> I can do against it.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Philipp Fäustlin
>>
>> Wrap the line from that error message in a try-catch-block and log the
>> exception, so you get some details about the actual error. Like so:
>>
>> try {
>>    // This is line 1284
>> } catch (Exception $e) {
>>    Horde::debug($e);
>>    throw $e;
>> }
>>
>> You will find horde_debug.txt in your temp directory.
>
> Hello.
>
> I found the solution to my above problem.
>
> There were some improperly formatted folder names in the folder  
> structure of the user's maildir.
> These folders contained the following character strings:
>
> "&5A-", "&1g-", "&3w-", "&9g-", "&,A-"
>
> I have replaced these string with the corresponding German special  
> character in the correct encoding and now it works.

UGH - you absolutely should *NOT* do this as this will horribly break  
all sorts of IMAP things.  These are how special characters are  
encoded in IMAP (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-5.1.3)

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]