Correct, it is a known bug with a lot of Eudora versions. Qualcomm has it's work cut out for itself to clean up that POS.
OK, but why does wu imap server works ? Can we expect cyrus server to correct this client issue ?
We can't tell all Eudora senders to change their habits and/or migrate to Mulberry, Outlook...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Murchison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Laurent LAVAUD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: huge bug
> If you want to send the message as it sits in the Cyrus and UW > mailstores (gzip it so that the mailer doesn't munge it) and possibly > capture the protocol log of the client trying to fetch the message, we > _might_ be able to figure out what is happening. > > My guess would be that Eudora is not formatting the MIME message > correctly (ill-formed/missing boundary?). > > > > Laurent LAVAUD wrote: > > huge bug for us... > > > > Here it is: when we compose mails with Eudora 5.02 or Eudora 5.2 with styled > > text and an attachment (an image for example), the same Eudora is unable to > > read it correctly (the body contains strange code instead of showing the text > > and the image link). > > This occurs only when we send the mail with the 2 formats proposed by Eudora > > (text only and styled text together). > > > > What make me think it's a cyrus bug is that if we send exactly the same message > > to the same server that runs wu imap instead of cyrus, everything is fine! > > > > Huge for us because 80% of our clients are Eudora (about 2000 clients) and > > people often compose mails with styled texts and attachments... > > > > Is there an issue to this except telling our users (and our senders but this > > should be more difficult) not to use Eudora ? > > > > The server is sendmail 8.9.12 + cyrus 2.1.13 > > > > Thanks for issues if available... > > > > > -- > Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. > Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place > 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 > --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp > > >
