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[#4121] High Load (not ending loop) with "corrupt" imap folders
Summary High Load (not ending loop) with "corrupt" imap folders
Queue IMP
Queue Version 4.1.2
Type Bug
State Not A Bug
Priority 1. Low
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Requester horde (at) immerda (dot) ch
Created 07/06/2006 (6911 days ago)
Due
Updated 07/07/2006 (6910 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved 07/07/2006 (6910 days ago)
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07/07/2006 02:45:44 AM Michael Slusarz Comment #2
State ⇒ Not A Bug
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The only way this could happen is if your IMAP server is broken (i.e. 
when going down a level it keeps returning information from the 
previous level).  And we are not going to code to check for a broken 
IMAP server when the more simple (and correct) server is either 
upgrade or fix the IMAP server.
07/06/2006 03:18:21 PM horde (at) immerda (dot) ch Comment #1
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Type ⇒ Bug
Summary ⇒ High Load (not ending loop) with "corrupt" imap folders
Queue ⇒ IMP
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i played around a bit with folder creation / deletion on our imap 
system with IMP.



so i created a folder in the inbox called foo (names are anonymised) 
and in this a subfolder called "bar. bla".

as bar.bla should be together i realised that this creates a new 
subfolder so i wanted to delete that all and create one with "bar bla" 
well i could delete them, but i got then a folder in foo in the tree 
displayed  which had an empty name. so i tried to delete this one. 
which i couldn't do anymore. so i played around a bit more (sorry for 
this description but i really can't remember anything exactly) and 
then i thought ok let's go back once to the INBOX let's try it later. 
after i clicked on the inbox folder it loaded and loaded and loaded.

after a while i logged into the server, looked at top and saw that one 
apache process was up to nearly 100% and the load of the machine grew. 
i straced this process and saw that it is always writing into the 
phpError logfile of the server. in this file i got tons of these 
logmessages repeated:



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[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  INBOX.foo.bar in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 691

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  c in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 724

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  p in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 725

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 726

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1328

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1275

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1438

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/imp/lib/IMAP/Tree.php on line 445

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/imp/lib/IMAP/Tree.php on line 445

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1275

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  INBOX.foo.bar in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 691

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  c in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 724

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  p in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 725

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 726

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1328

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 588

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 593

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 594

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  INBOX.foo.bar in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 691

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  c in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 724

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  p in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 725

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 726

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1328

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1275

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1438

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/imp/lib/IMAP/Tree.php on line 445

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/imp/lib/IMAP/Tree.php on line 445

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1275

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  INBOX.foo.bar in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 691

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  c in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 724

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  p in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 725

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 726

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  a in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 1328

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 588

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 593

[06-Jul-2006 16:57:04] PHP Notice:  Undefined index:  v in 
/www/localhost/horde/lib/Horde/IMAP/Tree.php on line 594

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so the only chance to stop this was to restart apache. but after i 
clicked again on INBOX (or went into the filter menu i.e.) the apache 
process was again up to 100% and filling my logfiles.



i could rearrange it with using thunderbird to login and delete the 
folders. (even thunderbird crashed once) so the problem was mostly 
because of corrupt IMAP folders i think.

but i think it's a problem when IMP then comes into an endless queue, 
push an apache process up to 100% and just fill the logfiles with php 
warnings.



this could be used for an attack to a webserver to lock it out.

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