How to crash IMP (was Re: [imp] redirect.php error & login failure- data dependent?)

Jeremy Freeman jfreeman@sporg.com
Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:15:50 -0700


I seem to be maybe having a similar problem. I have one user who cannot 
view her INBOX. Whenever she attempts to view it the Apache child 
segfaults. She can view any other box however.

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Jeremy Freeman

Steve Lidie wrote:
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> On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 14:52 US/Eastern, Steve Lidie wrote:
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>> With a few thousand users, I have 10-20 that cannot login to IMP, they 
>> get an error mentioning that accessing redirect.php failed.  I've seen 
>> similar reports in the archives from 2001 using PHP 4.0.6, but no 
>> resolution.  I'm using 4.2.0.
>>
>> I found that using Netscape I am able to read 4 of 4 pages of the 
>> user's mail.  Amazingly, when I tried IMP afterwards I was able to 
>> login, but could only see 3 of 4 pages of inbox mail.  Trying to goto 
>> page 2 always gives:
>>
>>    The attempt to load 'Accessing URL: 
>> https://hostname/horde/imp/mailbox.php?page=2' failed.
>>
>> This, essentially, is the same error message I had previously seen 
>> when login would fail.  The archives mentioned imap_sort() getting a 
>> segfault... could this still be the problem? Regardless, is this a 
>> known problem?
>>
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> What, no takers?
> 
> Well, yes, the problem is data dependent.  Find attached a message that, 
> if it's on the first page will prevent login and result in a 
> "redirect.php" error. If it's on any other subsequent page, that page 
> cannot be displayed, but all others can. I trust someone can gen a 
> patch, since this error is 100% reproducible.
> 
> Steve
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