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Bug #53375 imap_search 'ALL' always returns false
Submitted: 2010-11-22 09:46 UTC Modified: 2010-11-25 21:25 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: hm2k@php.net Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: IMAP related
PHP Version: 5.3.3 OS: CentOS
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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Further comment on this bug is unnecessary.

 

 [2010-11-22 09:46 UTC] hm2k@php.net 
Description:
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An imap_search for all always seems to return false, even though the mailbox Nmsgs returns a positive integer.

Test script:
---------------
<pre>
<?php

ini_set('display_errors','On');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

include 'settings.php';

//php version details
echo 'PHP '.phpversion()."\n";

//connect to mailbox
$stream=imap_open('{'.$host.'/imap/notls/norsh/novalidate-cert/readonly}INBOX',$user,$pass,OP_SILENT);
           
echo "imap_mailboxmsginfo->Nmsgs\n";
var_dump(imap_mailboxmsginfo($stream)->Nmsgs);
echo "\n";

$search='ALL';
echo "imap_search $search\n";
var_dump(imap_search($stream,$search)); //bool(false)
if (imap_last_error()) { echo 'Error: '.imap_last_error()."\n"; }
echo "\n";

echo "imap_alerts\n";
var_dump(imap_alerts());
echo "imap_errors\n";
var_dump(imap_errors());


Expected result:
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imap_search should return an array of message numbers or UIDs.

If it failed, there should be an error in imap_last_error().

Actual result:
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PHP 5.3.3
imap_mailboxmsginfo->Nmsgs
int(981)

imap_search ALL
bool(false)

imap_alerts
bool(false)
imap_errors
bool(false)

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 [2010-11-22 12:58 UTC] hm2k@php.net 
Further more, here's an example of it working by sending raw commands to the imap server through a normal telnet connection.

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* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THRE
AD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyr
ight 1998-2010 Double Precision, Inc.  See COPYING for distribution information.
a1 LOGIN <username> <password> OK LOGIN Ok.
a2 EXAMINE INBOX* FLAGS ($MDNSent Junk NonJunk $Forwarded \Draft \Answered \Flag
ged \Deleted \Seen \Recent)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] No permanent flags permitted
* 984 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1174303484] Ok
* OK [MYRIGHTS "acdilrsw"] ACL
a2 OK [READ-ONLY] Ok
a3 SEARCH ALL* SEARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 2
3 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76
 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 10
2 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 12
2 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 14
2 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 16
2 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 18
2 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 20
2 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 22
2 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 24
2 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 26
2 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 28
2 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 30
2 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 32
2 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 34
2 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 36
2 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 38
2 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 40
2 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 42
2 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 44
2 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 46
2 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 48
2 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 50
2 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 52
2 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 54
2 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 56
2 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 58
2 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 60
2 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 62
2 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 64
2 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 66
2 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 68
2 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 70
2 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 72
2 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 74
2 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 76
2 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 779 780 781 78
2 783 784 785 786 787 788 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 796 797 798 799 800 801 80
2 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 818 819 820 821 82
2 823 824 825 826 827 828 829 830 831 832 833 834 835 836 837 838 839 840 841 84
2 843 844 845 846 847 848 849 850 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 859 860 861 86
2 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 871 872 873 874 875 876 877 878 879 880 881 88
2 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 891 892 893 894 895 896 897 898 899 900 901 90
2 903 904 905 906 907 908 909 910 911 912 913 914 915 916 917 918 919 920 921 92
2 923 924 925 926 927 928 929 930 931 932 933 934 935 936 937 938 939 940 941 94
2 943 944 945 946 947 948 949 950 951 952 953 954 955 956 957 958 959 960 961 96
2 963 964 965 966 967 968 969 970 971 972 973 974 975 976 977 978 979 980 981 98
2 983 984
a3 OK SEARCH done.
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I also monitored the included test script with tcpdump and you can clearly see the client and server communicating. You can see the ids as expected, but for some reason they are not being returned to PHP and instead imap_search() is returning false.
 [2010-11-25 20:51 UTC] iliaa@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-11-25 20:51 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions.  Due to the volume
of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not
a bug.  The support channels will be able to provide an explanation
for you.

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

Looking at the backend code, PHP calls the mail_search_full() method directly and 
relies on its output, so the issue lies within c-client, rather than PHP.
 [2010-11-25 21:20 UTC] hm2k@php.net
-Status: Bogus +Status: Open
 [2010-11-25 21:20 UTC] hm2k@php.net 
The bug is in PHP, it is a PHP implementation of the IMAP c-client library.

Reporting the bug in a third party implementations is NOT the responsibility of the end user, it is of the developer.

Imagine if I told every user of every bug reported to me in everything I developed in PHP to do the same thing you're telling me. They would get closed and the bug would never get fixed.

So, this doesn't wash with me I'm afraid.

All that aside, this bug is NOT bogus. I created an implementation in perl which worked fine, while the PHP counterpart fails.

The least you should do as a representative for this implementation is report the bug to the appropriate vendor on behalf of the end user.

I trust you will agree.
 [2010-11-25 21:25 UTC] pajoye@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus -Block user comment: N +Block user comment: Y
 [2010-11-25 21:25 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
There is no c-client implementation in PHP, we use the library which is installed by your distribution (centos). So if you don't want to report a bug to c-client, just go to centos.
 [2010-11-25 21:57 UTC] hm2k@php.net 
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4640
 
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