ports/137690: fetchmail in malloc(): error: recursive call

Norbert Koch nkoch at demig.de
Wed Aug 12 08:20:07 UTC 2009


>Number:         137690
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       fetchmail in malloc(): error: recursive call
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 12 08:20:06 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Norbert Koch
>Release:        6.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD firewall.XXXXX.intra 6.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p3 #2: Fri Jan 30 14:38:42 CET 2009     root at firewall.demig.intra:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIREWALL  i386

>Description:
I updated the fetchmail port from 6.3.10 to 6.3.11.

As soon as I run "fetchmail" I see endless messages
"fetchmail in malloc(): error: recursive call".
I have to "kill -kill fetchmail".

"fetchmail -v" and "fetchmail -V" are ok.
After downgrading to fetchmail 6.3.10 all is ok again.


Output of fetchmail -V
fetchmail: WARNING: Running as root is discouraged.
This is fetchmail release 6.3.11+RPA+SDPS+SSL+OPIE.

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Andree, Eric S. Raymond, Robert M. Funk, Graham Wilson
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Sunil Shetye
Copyright (C) 2005 - 2009 Matthias Andree
Fetchmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details,
please see the file COPYING in the source or documentation directory.

Fallback MDA: (none)
FreeBSD firewall.XXXXX.intra 6.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p3 #2: Fri Jan 30 14:38:42 CET 2009     root at firewall.XXXXX.intra:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FIREWALL  i386
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to postmaster.
Fetchmail will direct error mail to the postmaster.
Options for retrieving from webmaster at XXXXX.de@XXXXX.de:
  Mail will be retrieved via XXXXXXXX.de
  True name of server is XXXXXXXX.de.
  Protocol is POP3.
  All available authentication methods will be tried.
  SSL encrypted sessions enabled.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  All messages will be retrieved (--all on).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will be flushed before message retrieval (--flush on).
  Oversized messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--limitflush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Fetch message size limit is 100 (--fetchsizelimit 100).
  Do binary search of UIDs during 3 out of 4 polls (--fastuidl 4).
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Multi-drop mode: 1 local name recognized.
  DNS lookup for multidrop addresses is disabled.
  Envelope header is assumed to be: Envelope-to
  Predeclared mailserver aliases: pop.XXXXXX.de
  Local domains: XXXXXX.de
  125 UIDs saved.
>How-To-Repeat:
see above
>Fix:
downgrading to 6.3.10

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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