Have you tried to look on the mails using pine through
IMAP? If the mails still look alright then I would suggest
that you found a bug in the IMAP implementation of the
Eudora-beta version.
Regards,
Reiner Buehl.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Rittner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 5:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems reading mail from IMAP clients
>
>
> Hello! I'm finally on the verge of replacing my aging Novell fileserver
> with a brand new Linux server. One of the things that's been
> plaguing me has been how I'm going to do the mail. Currently, my
> department runs Pegasus mail through Mercury, on the Novell box,
> and all the mail files are kept on the server, and backed up.
>
> What I'd like to do is develop something similar to this, using
> Eudora and IMAP. So I found a couple programs that convert
> Pegasus mail data to Eudora mailboxes. The best one I found so
> far was the peg2eud.pl script, which allows me to keep all the mail
> on the server, not transfering it back and forth from a PC to convert
> it.
>
> After the conversion process, all the Pegasus mailboxes are
> translated into Eudora boxes, which, as I understand it, use the
> same format as standard UNIX mailboxes. And it seems to be true.
> I can read the converted files without any problems in Pine.
>
> However, when I connect to the server with Eudora through IMAP,
> most of the messages appear fine, but some, about half of them,
> show nothing but the header. I'll open the message, and Eudora
> only shows the header, but no message. I've manually looked
> throught the mail files, and I can't find anything in them that looks
> different from the messages that DO work. I can bring the
> messages locally to the machine running Eudora, and then they're
> OK, but I need to keep this stuff on the server, so I can back it up.
>
> Has anybody had any experience with this kind of thing? Could you
> tell me why the mail looks great in Pine and not through IMAP in
> Eudora? I'm doing this through a RH 6.0 machine, with imap-4.5-3,
> and using the new Eudora 4.3 beta, hoping that by the time I do
> the actual conversion, it won't be in beta anymore.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Andy
>
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