This isn't something Cyrus can fix without seriously reworking the imap daemon (not something they will do to repair a bug Qualcomm should deal with). 5.2 and above seem to be fine, just have your clients on older installs upgrade.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurent LAVAUD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Chait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:53 PM Subject: Re: huge bug A 13:30 27/06/2003 -0700, vous avez écrit : >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 > > > > > >
