[horde] Php 5.6.0~beta3 crashes dovecot when horde tries to login

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Henning <Twilek at gmx.de>:

> Michael M Slusarz <slusarz <at> horde.org> writes:
>
>>
>> Quoting Henning <Twilek <at> gmx.de>:
>>
>> > Will horde be compatible with 5.6 in the future or do they have to
>> > change something?
>>
>> There's nothing for us to change.  The backward incompatible list is 4
>> items long, and I am not aware of using any of those 4 features.
>>
>> More importantly, if PHP is segfaulting - that indicates an issue with
>> the PHP core, not Horde.
>>
>
> It is actually dovecot (or the login agent it spawns) which is segfaulting.
> But it only does that if horde tries to authenticate with it using php 5.6.
> The same procedure works flawlessly with horde php 5.5 and dovecot. So it
> probably is some new php thing that has changed but horde triggers it. Other
> php programs using IMAP(like squirrelmail) do not make dovecot crash even
> with php 5.6. As I said I have reverted to php 5.5 so for me the problem has
> gone, but it might be worth keeping an eye out that there might be trouble
> ahead with php 5.6 and IMAP. Especially if 5.6 gets out of beta and more
> widely adopted.

Should be simple enough to debug then.  Just look at the IMAP debug  
log to determine the command that is causing the issue.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]