lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm        | 35 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
 lib/PublicInbox/IMAPdeflate.pm | 10 ++++++++++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
index 917833f7c470bfc1c6d573f6dc165b277af4b1db..3c32d846508bf5cea8e22b9571db906f8b520aed 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
@@ -888,38 +888,35 @@ # callback used by PublicInbox::DS for any (e)poll (in/out/hup/err)
 sub event_step {
 	my ($self) = @_;
 
-	return unless $self->flush_write && $self->{sock};
+	return unless $self->flush_write && $self->{sock} && !$self->{long_cb};
 
 	$self->update_idle_time;
 	# only read more requests if we've drained the write buffer,
 	# otherwise we can be buffering infinitely w/o backpressure
 
-	my $rbuf = $self->{rbuf} // (\(my $x = ''));
-	my $r = 1;
-
-	if (index($$rbuf, "\n") < 0) {
-		my $off = length($$rbuf);
-		$r = $self->do_read($rbuf, LINE_MAX, $off) or return;
+	my $rbuf = $self->{rbuf} // \(my $x = '');
+	my $line = index($$rbuf, "\n");
+	while ($line < 0) {
+		return $self->close if length($$rbuf) >= LINE_MAX;
+		$self->do_read($rbuf, LINE_MAX, length($$rbuf)) or return;
+		$line = index($$rbuf, "\n");
 	}
-	while ($r > 0 && $$rbuf =~ s/\A[ \t]*([^\n]*?)\r?\n//) {
-		my $line = $1;
-		return $self->close if $line =~ /[[:cntrl:]]/s;
-		my $t0 = now();
-		my $fd = fileno($self->{sock});
-		$r = eval { process_line($self, $line) };
-		my $pending = $self->{wbuf} ? ' pending' : '';
-		out($self, "[$fd] %s - %0.6f$pending", $line, now() - $t0);
-	}
+	$line = substr($$rbuf, 0, $line + 1, '');
+	$line =~ s/\r?\n\z//s;
+	return $self->close if $line =~ /[[:cntrl:]]/s;
+	my $t0 = now();
+	my $fd = fileno($self->{sock});
+	my $r = eval { process_line($self, $line) };
+	my $pending = $self->{wbuf} ? ' pending' : '';
+	out($self, "[$fd] %s - %0.6f$pending - $r", $line, now() - $t0);
 
 	return $self->close if $r < 0;
-	my $len = length($$rbuf);
-	return $self->close if ($len >= LINE_MAX);
 	$self->rbuf_idle($rbuf);
 	$self->update_idle_time;
 
 	# maybe there's more pipelined data, or we'll have
 	# to register it for socket-readiness notifications
-	$self->requeue unless $self->{wbuf};
+	$self->requeue unless $pending;
 }
 
 sub compressed { undef }
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAPdeflate.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAPdeflate.pm
index 67c9a9738d54836fe12edf7a5911983945c41ba4..42daa6cffaaa37f75b581e4665ebfece65cf8a77 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAPdeflate.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAPdeflate.pm
@@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ 	my $dbuf = delete($self->{dbuf}) // '';
 	$doff = length($dbuf);
 	my $r = PublicInbox::DS::do_read($self, \$dbuf, $len, $doff) or return;
 
+	# Workaround inflate bug appending to OOK scalars:
+	# <https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132734>
+	# We only have $off if the client is pipelining, and pipelining
+	# is where our substr() OOK optimization in event_step makes sense.
+	if ($off) {
+		my $copy = $$rbuf;
+		undef $$rbuf;
+		$$rbuf = $copy;
+	}
+
 	# assert(length($$rbuf) == $off) as far as NNTP.pm is concerned
 	# -ConsumeInput is true, so $dbuf is automatically emptied
 	my $err = $zin->inflate($dbuf, $rbuf);