[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#722576: Bug#722576: nagios-plugins: check_imap hangs until timeout occur

[Jan Wagner]

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severity 722576 serious
tags 722576 + pending upstream
thanks

Hi Jörgen,

thanks for taking the time reporting this issue.

Am 12.09.2013 14:32, schrieb Jörgen Hägg:
> The latest versions of check_imap have some problem with reading
> from the stream, it seems as if it does not recognize EOL 
> correctly, therefore it hangs until timeout occurs.

we have spotted the issue with commit cfb50add5[1]

> A workaround is to maximize the received number of characters with
> -m. This is not a practial solution, but it works and may perhaps 
> shed some light on the real issue.
> 
> Running 'check_imap -v -H HOSTNAME' gives this error after
> timeout:

We think to expect a fix for this issue by this week, hopefully. Feel
also free to create push requests! ;)

Thanks, Jan.
[1] https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins/commit/cfb50add53
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