[imp] imp hanging when deleteing

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Stephen Foster <sfoster at serjfp.org>:

> I'm using imp version 1.53 and horde 1.74 with courier imap 1.37.
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> I have user account on my system that hangs up the impad daemon when using
> imp. His account is the only one that does this.
>
> Basically when he tries to perform any action (view email, delete email, ect
> .) imp hangs for a few seconds then it spawns a impad process under his
> username that keeps running and will not die off.
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> Output of top:
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> PID     USERNAME       THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES   STATE   TIME   WCPU
> COMMAND
>
> 68095  jdoe                   1    131    0      2596K  1256K RUN      3:24
> 97.76%  imapd
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> For example he tries and deletes an email; it spawns a process like shown
> above then he tries and composes an email that spawns another process. After
> about four of these processes have been spawned imapd will not log anyone
> in.
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> The imap logs do not show any errors however these type of errors appear in
> my apache logs.
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> [Tue Aug  8 16:34:22 2006] [notice] child pid 65525 exit signal Abort trap
> (6)
>
> [Tue Aug  8 16:34:25 2006] [notice] child pid 65527 exit signal Abort trap
> (6)
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> [Tue Aug  8 16:34:27 2006] [notice] child pid 65526 exit signal Abort trap
> (6)
>
> [Tue Aug  8 16:34:30 2006] [notice] child pid 65532 exit signal Abort trap
> (6)
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> httpd in free(): error: chunk is already free
>
> [Tue Aug  8 16:43:16 2006] [notice] child pid 75659 exit signal Abort trap
> (6)
>
> [Tue Aug  8 16:53:19 2006] [notice] child pid 38419 exit signal Segmentation
> fault (11)
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> I've read that this may be caused by php but that doesn't make much sense to
> me being that it's limited to a single user.

Of course it does.  That user has a malformed message in that folder  
that causes c-client to segfault.

http://wiki.horde.org/IMPNoMessageText

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]