Nikolai Grigoriev created JAMES-1580: ----------------------------------------
Summary: HBase mailbox may be blocked permanently by a malformed email Key: JAMES-1580 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-1580 Project: James Server Issue Type: Bug Components: POP3Server Affects Versions: 3.0-beta4, Trunk Environment: POP3 mailbox access with the mailbox managed by HBase Reporter: Nikolai Grigoriev I have discovered the problem when working on a company-specific fork of James but when I verified the trunk code I believe I saw the same problem there too. org.apache.james.mailbox.hbase.HBaseUtils.messageMetaFromResult() calls getProperty() method like this: {code} while (i < keys.length) { //get message properties if (Bytes.startsWith(keys[i].getQualifier(), PREFIX_PROP_B)) { propList.add(getProperty(keys[i].getValue())); } else if (Bytes.startsWith(keys[i].getQualifier(), PREFIX_SFLAGS_B)) { {code} getProperty() method throws RuntimeException (which is a bad practice, in my opinion, in this case). This exception is not handled anywhere close enough in this method or in the caller. As result, when a message in the mailbox cannot be parsed, then the mailbox becomes permanently inaccessible until that message is removed manually. I am receiving such messages from time to time so the problem is real. I think the best solution would be either to skip the property and move to the next one. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org