[imp] Imp 3.0 hangs on compose/reply

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Kevin Amorin <kev@amorin.org>:

> 	I'm sure this is obscure problem but setting the
> allow_folders option to false and using a folders prefix of "\" causes
> imp/compose.php to hang and the CPU to jump to 100%.  I am using
> Solaris 8 with uw-imap 2001a, apache 1.3.22, php 4.1.1, imp 3, and horde 2
> and under all other configurations compose runs just fine.  Just ran into
> this problem by accident.

Yes, your imap server allows browsing of the entire filesystem, and you are
telling it to list every file on the machine as a folder. I consider this a UW
bug; it's not so much a bug in IMP as much as an untenable reality. :)

-chuck

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