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[Keith A. Chayer]

Quoting Max Kalika <max@the-triumvirate.net>:

> Quoting "Keith A. Chayer" <kchayer@bbcnet.edu>:
> 
> > That's strange--I use a CNAME on our mail server (that IMP uses), and
> don't
> > have any trouble.  I don't use the navigator much, but I've never had it
> > crash the IMAP server.
> 
> What php version? Which imap server? It doesn't crash the imap server on my
> 
> end, but php corrupts some variables (either password or login -- I still
> don't 
> know) thus causing bogus connection attempts to cyrus.

I just updated PHP CVS about 2 days ago--it reports 4.05-dev.  I use Cyrus IMAP 
1.6.24.

You mentioned something that intrigues me--corrupted variables causing bogus 
connection attempts.  I am getting what appears to be something similar.  Far as 
I can tell, IMP 2.3 doesn't do it (I'm about the only one that uses it, though), 
but when people use 2.2 (2.2.4-cvs, to be exact), I get all sorts of weird 
failed login attempts in the logs.  People still get logged in without any 
apparent errors on their end, but I get stuff in my logs like:

Dec 10 07:46:04 hawking imapd[26357]: badlogin: edison.bbcnet.edu[209.106.196.16
] plaintext {mail Userid not found

  and

Dec 10 11:51:42 hawking imapd[27486]: badlogin: edison.bbcnet.edu[209.106.196.16
] plaintext sa_unseen Userid not found

  and

Dec 10 12:34:26 hawking imapd[27728]: badlogin: edison.bbcnet.edu[209.106.196.16
] plaintext ^\Dy^H^Q invalid user

Is that similar to what you experience?  I haven't tried backing out PHP 
versions 'cause IMP 2.3 is supposed to require 4.04-cvs (in case it's PHP's 
fault).  I figured I had a setting wrong, or it would clear itself out over 
time.  I have a hard time blaming IMP, as I haven't updated it to cause this to 
happen--it started out of the blue.  PHP is a possible culprit I hadn't 
considered.  I've just been ignoring it (though the logs I get in my mail annoy 
me--I've long since realized it wasn't someone trying to break in to my server).

..Keith

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