CentOS - Oct 2011 - CentOS 4 Dovecot Problem

For those of you that still are running CentOS 4... I have one system 
that is still going... there is a problem with the newest release of 
Dovecot under mbox. Certain spam is causing this error when users try to 
log on.

file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= 
((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1)))

Rolling back to a previous release fixes these issues. I'm not bothering 
to file a bug with Redhat as the EOL is rapidly approaching and I just 
about have my one system's users moved to a new server.

I have not as of yet seen this problem on CentOS 5 mbox systems, but I 
don't have many users on those systems either as I'm 'slowly'
migrating
all to CentOS 6 Maildir systems.

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On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Hinton <webmaster at ew3d.com>
wrote:
> For those of you that still are running CentOS 4... I have one system
> that is still going... there is a problem with the newest release of
> Dovecot under mbox. Certain spam is causing this error when users try to
> log on.
>
> file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <>
((size_t)1 << (BITS_IN_SIZE_T-1)))
>
> Rolling back to a previous release fixes these issues. I'm not
bothering
> to file a bug with Redhat as the EOL is rapidly approaching and I just
> about have my one system's users moved to a new server.
>
> I have not as of yet seen this problem on CentOS 5 mbox systems, but I
> don't have many users on those systems either as I'm
'slowly' migrating
> all to CentOS 6 Maildir systems.
>
>

I got bit by this bug as well.  I rolled back to dovecot-0.9.11-9 for now
until I find time to upgrade to CentOS 5 or 6.