428483 - PARSER: Internal Syntax Error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Neale Upstone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040504 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: version 3.0a1pre (2008040302)

I have some specific messages (generated by OpenSRS, so will hit lots of people) that are generating an error of the format in the IMAP log: 

nnnn[xxxxxxx]: yyyyyyy:mail.server.com:S-INBOX:PARSER:Internal Syntax Error on line: %s: The auth-code for domain.com is: AbCdEf0321

The message succeeds in opening in the UI, but the failed line is truncated to:
  The auth-code for domain.c





Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Request a domain transfer auth code from from an ISP using OpenSRS 
2. The email reads correctly via web-mail but not with nightly build of TB3

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

How about thunderbird 2.0?
Also, a full imap log could be helpful - <http://www.mozilla.org/quality/mailnews/mail-troubleshoot.html#imap>

Comment 2

[Neale Upstone]

Hi,

Not tried TB2 on this. 

As for the log, naturally, it's rather security sensitive (and I do have it, that's how I got the above error).

I've received the email, re-sent 3 times, and it always has the same problem.

Sorry that I cannot post the actual line, it would allow anyone looking to hijack a domain.

Comment 3

[Neale Upstone]

Hi,

Just installed TB2 (version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)), and I get the same problem.  Interestingly, if I forward the same line to myself as a plain text email, it parses.  The original does not specify a Content-Type, so perhaps this is charset/default encoding related...

I can email a log if you say where to email it to.

Cheers,

Neale

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's ok to sanitize the log, exchange the domain to be example.com, change the auth code so that it's not security sensitive.

Comment 5

[Neale Upstone]

Attachment: Sanitised log

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, the code wise you seem to end up here, but I don't know why.
<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapServerResponseParser.cpp#3177>

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

the last header might be suspicious:

2428[236d630]: 3045cd0:mail.maildomain.com:S-INBOX:CreateNewLineFromSocket: X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on server/Org(Release 8.0.1|February

2428[236d630]: ReadNextLine [stream=5ede138 nb=35 needmore=0]
2428[236d630]: 3045cd0:mail.maildomain.com:S-INBOX:CreateNewLineFromSocket:  07, 2008) at 03/04/2008 14:32:32

Does the second line of the X-MIMETrack header begin with a tab, or just a space?

Comment 8

[Neale Upstone]

That's a space... And naturally, as that's the server's line, then it is common to every message in my inbox.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Neale, do you still see this?

Comment 10

[Neale Upstone]

I've not hit it again since my last report, so I guess it can be closed.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update