ok i finally got around to doing some checks. with a stuck mailbox i did a
grep '\r\n' * and found quite a few messages with that string, however they
are mostly in headers... and seems to all come from hotmail and yahoo
groups.
on the other hand, doing a hexdump -c message i can't spot any \r's so maybe
it's not it... or maybe it's just hexdump stripping em off (which it
shouldn't but who knows what kind of bugs you can find...)
can anyone else verify this? my guess is it doesn't happen all the time,
since yahoo groups and hotmail are pretty widely used and i dont get that
many stuck mailboxes
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Candler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daniel Higgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ricardo Zuasti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [courier-users] pop3 repeated messages
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:47:10AM -0500, Daniel Higgins wrote:
> > it seems that sometimes, when a corrupt mail (i haven't been able to
> > exactly identify the problem yet, so i can't say exactly) gets in the
> > maildir of the user. it causes the pop3 client to crash in some way
or
> > think it is done delivering.
>
> Try looking for files in the Maildir with lines ending
>
> \r\n
>
> (and therefore are translated to \r\r\n upon download).
>
> This confuses Outlook Express big time - as I discovered recently.
>
> If anyone noticed the homemade 'maildirfetch' program I posted a few weeks
> ago - don't use that version. It doesn't strip off \r's from messages
pulled
> via POP3. This is how I found out about this problem...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian.
>
>
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