On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Ivo Smits wrote: > Hello Davide,
Hi! > Sometimes my POP3 client (Mozilla Thunderbird) does no longer receive new > messages from my XMail server. Some investigation shows that when the client > attempts to retrieve (RETR) a particular e-mail, and XMail sends the message, > the end-of-message marker is NOT on a line by itself, but rather added onto > the last line of the message. It appears that the spool file for this > particular message does also not have a newline at the end of the file, while > other messages do. I think that this might be related. > > I am not sure why sometimes such an e-mail has no newline at the end of the > file. This particular e-mail was SPAM, and was modified by SpamAssassin (with > some helper script to deal with the XMail header). This might have stripped > off the newline. > > However, even if the problem was caused by my antispam solution, I think that > a crippled spool file should not break the POP3 session. Would it make sense > to you to add a check to XMail to detect missing newlines (as well as > incorrect end-of-message markers) while sending a message via POP3 (or SMTP)? This is certainly a corruption induced by mail handlers poking within the XMail internal spool files. SPAM messages are just like every other message, and they get properly terminated by newlines. A missing newline is no different from any other form of corruption, which, whatever handlers are piled up directly poking into the XMail internal spool, are not supposed to generate. A fix in whatever thing causing the issue is more likely a better place, isn't it? - Davide _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
