Header is wrapped on my system with caching enabled in mail. [10.6.6 up to date]
On Feb 3, 2011, at 4:09 AM, Raphaël Kena Poss wrote: > Hi Alex > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:53 +0100, "Alexander Willner" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 03.02.2011, at 03:37, Raphael 'kena' Poss wrote: >>> I checked with GPGMail disabled (not in the Bundles directory), and I see >>> that Mail.app still breaks the content header with GPGMail disabled. So >>> this behavior seems not specific to GPGMail. >> >> Neither it seems to be specific to Apple Mail since I cannot reproduce >> this issue (see below). Not sure why your message gets modified - maybe >> you've using slightly different mail servers in Mail and Thunderbird? >> Does it help to rename Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist and >> reconfigure Mail.app? > > The mail server is the same in Mail and Thunderbird. As another data > point, I sniffed the IMAP traffic between Mail and the server, and I > also confirm that the content header is on a single line at the point it > comes from IMAP into Mail.app. > > (btw, all these tests are made with Mail 4.4 build 1082.) > > However you were on the right track. I think I found where the issue > lies. Here is the path through the experiment: > > I tried with another Mac running 10.6.6 and the same Mail build. I > configured the same mail server, once over SSL and once over plain IMAP. > In both cases, the content header is wrapped. > > Then I created a blank OS X user account on that other Mac with a virgin > Mail install (as you suggested) and there the content header is still > wrapped. > > Then I checked your idea to use a different mail server. I redirected > the message to a different e-mail account and I downloaded it using that > different account's server on the 2nd Mac. Surprise! Then the header is > *not* wrapped. Then I install GPGMail and the signature does validate > properly. > > So I got back to the 1st Mac with GPGMail and I connect to this 2nd > e-mail server. Alas, then the header is wrapped again! > > To summarize: > > Mac 1 Mac 2 > Server 1 broken broken > Server 2 broken OK > > Now, I tried to make another blank OS X user account, and I tried again. > And then it was, the header was not wrapped in either server 1 nor > server 2! > > That got me thinking and I browsed through the differences between my > first test account above and this new one. They were both identical, > except for *one* option: "do not keep copies of the messages nor > attachments" in Mail's account preferences. > > I checked all my previous experiments and I can confirm this: in all my > situations the content header is wrapped if and only if caching is > disabled. > > Now what to do with that? I certainly don't want to enable caching of my > main inbox on any computer. > > Thanks in advance for any comments or suggestions. > -- > Raphaël Kena Poss > > _______________________________________________ > gpgtools-users mailing list > [email protected] > FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html > Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users > Unsubscribe: > http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/[email protected]?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 > > This email sent to: [email protected] James R. Cutler [email protected] _______________________________________________ gpgtools-users mailing list [email protected] FAQ: http://www.gpgtools.org/faq.html Changes: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/listinfo/gpgtools-users Unsubscribe: http://lists.gpgtools.org/mailman/options/gpgtools-users/[email protected]?unsub=Unsubscribe&unsubconfirm=1 This email sent to: [email protected]
