On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, John Alton Tamplin wrote: > Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski wrote: > > > I was attempting to move an email message from a local account onto an > > IMAP directory located on Cyrus. The client I am using is Netscape > > Mail and usually it gives me no problems. This time, I am not able to > > move the message because the client gives the following error: > > > > Unable to perform operation. Message contains bare newlines. > > > > The message has an attached PDF file (2Mb size) and a signature with > > image integrated. Any idea of what can be my problem? > > In IMAP, messages are required to have \r\n as line terminators, not > just \n. Many other IMAP servers (or mail clients' local folders) do > not enforce strict RFC compliance, while Cyrus does -- when we converted > from UW-IMAP to Cyrus I had to write code to munge messages into the > proper format (8 bit or null data in headers, and bogus headers are the > other two issues you will likely run into).
John, How are you dealing with "8 bit or null data in headers, and bogus headers"? - Bill > > -- > John A. Tamplin Unix System Administrator > Emory University, School of Public Health +1 404/727-9931 > > >
