Mail.app crashes with OpenDirectory users

Originator:pepi.zawodsky
Number:rdar://17823139 Date Originated:27-Jul-2014 04:45 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Mail Product Version:7.3 (1878)
Classification:Crash/Hang/Data Loss Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Users with networked homes over AFP using OpenDirectory can't use Mail.app in Mavericks.

Steps to Reproduce:
Bind Mac with fresh Mavericks installation to OpenDirectory Server. Login with network home OD user.
Launch Mail.app and configure an IMAP account.
After a moment Mail.app will crash.
If you have several accounts, Mail.app becomes absolutely unusable since it crashes after a few seconds.

Expected Results:
Mail.app should not crash.

Actual Results:
Mail.app crashes, each and every launch while trying to create temp files with _NSCreateTemporaryFile.
The files are created in /private/var/folders to which the users do have read/write permissions. Mail.app even successfully creates its subfolders there.

Regression:
This only seems to happen with OpenDirectory users which we have hundreds of. Mavericks rollout had to be stopped. We're back to 10.6.8 where this worked just fine. 

Notes:
Lost several days of admin productivity due to this bug. :-(

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