[horde] Unclear error message - any hints?

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Wed Jun 14 08:50:37 UTC 2017


Zitat von Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:

> Quoting Oscar del Rio <delrio at mie.utoronto.ca>:
>
>> On 06/13/17 11:23 AM, Jens-U. Mozdzen wrote:
>>> I have three "external accounts" in my Horde webmail interface,  
>>> one of them generates an "interesting" error message.
>>>
>>> I have logged in to that account via Horde (as well as to the  
>>> other two) and see the corresponding "inbox" folder in the  
>>> navigation tree on the left of the IMP window. When clicking that  
>>> folder entry, the folder is opened in the right pane and I see a  
>>> red popup stating "contains hyphen at position three and four"  
>>> (original message is German: "Enthält Bindestrich an der dritten  
>>> und vierten Stelle"). Horde's log does not list any messages when  
>>> this happens.
>>>
>>> Any idea what component might be delivering that error message - and why?
>>>
>>
>> Source code:
>> https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/framework/Idna/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/Horde_Idna.po#L32
>> #: lib/Horde/Idna.php:63
>> msgid "Contains hyphen in the third and fourth positions"
>> msgstr "Enthält Bindestrich an der dritten und vierten Stelle"
>>
>> https://github.com/horde/horde/blob/master/framework/Idna/lib/Horde/Idna.php#L82
>> * Checks if the $idna_info parameter of idn_to_ascii() or idn_to_utf8()
>> * contains errors.
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5891#section-4.2.3.1
>> 4.2.3.1. Hyphen Restrictions
>>   The Unicode string MUST NOT contain "--" (two consecutive hyphens) in
>>   the third and fourth character positions and MUST NOT start or end
>>   with a "-" (hyphen).
>
> Exactly. One or more of the email addresses in the affected mailbox  
> contains a domain that contains hyphens in the 3rd and 4th character  
> positions.

Though this should not keep the mailbox from getting loaded, and IIRC  
we fixed such an issue not long ago.

-- 
Jan Schneider
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