an emoty mbox will cause an error at pop3 login

• Key: JAMES-625
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Critical
• Assignee: Norman Maurer
• Reporter: davide.bz
• Component/s: POP3Server
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0

Description

I tried to use mbox as inboxRepository even with an empty file or deleting all emails, pop3 will give an error at login after the password (maybe triing to open the repository)

Comments

What version of James are you testing? James 2.2.0 ? 2.3.0rc3 ? trunk?

[davide.bz]

James 2.2.0

[Norman Maurer]

Please test it with latest 2.3.0 release and report if the problem still exits. 2.3.0 will be released soon. You can get the latest "release canidat" from: http://people.apache.org/dist/james/

Im almost sure this bug is fixed in 2.3.0.

[Norman Maurer]

just test it with 2.3rc4. Same here!

[Norman Maurer]

Here is the stacktrace:

06/10/06 18:40:28 ERROR pop3server: Exception during connection from localhost (127.0.0.1) : null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.james.mailrepository.MBoxMailRepository.list(MBoxMailRepository.java:546)
at org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler.stat(POP3Handler.java:395)
at org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler.doPASS(POP3Handler.java:545)
at org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler.parseCommand(POP3Handler.java:477)
at org.apache.james.pop3server.POP3Handler.handleConnection(POP3Handler.java:275)
at org.apache.james.util.connection.ServerConnection$ClientConnectionRunner.run(ServerConnection.java:422)
at org.apache.excalibur.thread.impl.ExecutableRunnable.execute(ExecutableRunnable.java:55)
at org.apache.excalibur.thread.impl.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:116)

[Norman Maurer]

thx for reporting!

[Danny Angus]

Closing issue fixed in released version.