Bug 275596

Summary:	Wrong characters in IMAP greeting causes kmail2 to hang/slow down
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Matthias <salem>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Matthias 2011-06-13 23:02:12 UTC

Version:           2.1.0 (using KDE 4.6.4) 
OS:                Linux

I'm using Dovecot as IMAP-Server and configured "Welcome :-)" as a greeting message. After adding the IMAP-Server to kmail2 (akonadi) the akonadi_imap_resource daemon get stuck with 100% CPU. The menu entry shows "No server configured yet".
Nothing more happens. The mailserver log shows:
Jun 13 00:08:36 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Inactivity (no auth attempts): rip=10.0.0.2, lip=x, TLS 

I removed the smiley from the greeting message and everything works fine now. Must be the brackets i think.
Clients like kmail1, Sylpheed or Thunderbird working fine with the old greeting message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Wrong characters in welcome message.

Actual Results:  
akonadi_imap_resource process with max CPU

Comment 1 Denis Kurz 2016-09-24 18:22:52 UTC

This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present?

If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months.

Comment 2 Denis Kurz 2017-01-07 22:26:42 UTC

Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input.