Bug#636505: libmail-imapclient-perl: Mail::IMAPClient erroneous logout failure if server splits response across packets

[Daniel Hagerty]

Package: libmail-imapclient-perl
Version: 3.25-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream


The Mail::IMAPClient shipping in squeeze has serious issues processing
logout properly, where it will erroneously report failures if the
server's logout text has been split across multiple packets.

Dovecot (used here) is apparently particularly prone to producing the
problem.

For our own use, we have been downgrading to the lenny supplied 3.08
version, without any loss of functionality we need; this may not work
for others.

This bug has been fixed upstream in 3.26 and newer.  Debian unstable
and testing are now shipping 3.28, which include the fix.  The
original upstream bug report can be found as rt.cpan.org#60045.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libmail-imapclient-perl depends on:
ii  libparse-recdescent-pe 1.965001+dfsg-1   Perl module to create and use recu
ii  perl                   5.10.1-17squeeze2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages libmail-imapclient-perl recommends:
ii  libdigest-hmac-perl      1.02+dfsg-1     module for creating standard messa
ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl    1.33-1+squeeze1 Perl module implementing object or

Versions of packages libmail-imapclient-perl suggests:
ii  libauthen-sasl-perl           2.1500-1   Authen::SASL - SASL Authentication

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