Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Is there a way to make mailutil ignore these badly formatted messages
>> and continue the transfer ?
>
> That problem (the check for "invalid header") is not in mailutil; it's
> in the Cyrus server.  The Cyrus server is refusing to accept the
> message in question.

Yes, but the message really seems to be bad. When I look the offending
mailbox (mbx format) with Pine, I get this:

 R   1999-01-28 <obscured>      (4530) Re: <subject obscured>
 RA  1999-05-07 <obscured>      (4063)
 R                              (1155)
 R   1999-05-08 <obscured>      (4883) Re:

The third message contains the text body from the previous message,
and begins with a '>From ' line. I believe some crap happened when I
converted from unix format to mbx two years ago.

> Mailutil, in turn, stops when it ceases to be able to do what it was
> told to do.  Mailutil has no way of knowing that the problem is just
> that silly check, or some more serious matter.  I doubt very much that
> you would want to have mailutil tell you that a copy was done, only to
> find that most messages were not copied due to a serious problem.

You are right, there is a serious problem in this case. 

-- 
Nicolas

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