We use Imail 5.07, OE 5.x, 100% IMAP accts... and experience the problem occasionally
(A couple of messages a month). Usually it's incoming junk mail or mail with many,
many To: addresses. Never had this problem with OE 4.x
Sorry to say that I can't point to quotes and/or commas as the culprit. Mail that was
invisible to Ben below appeared normally for me. (OE 5.5)
Tom Cyr
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Shadix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Invisible mail may be IMail bug after all
I use Outlook 2000 and IMAP against an IMail 6 server with all patches and
have never experienced this invisible mail problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Jones, Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:57 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Invisible mail may be IMail bug after all
That's funny, because that message shows up for me. I am using OE 5.5
(IMAP, no syncronizing) and IMail 6.06a.
JIm
----- Original Message -----
From: "IMain Admin at BC Web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Invisible mail may be IMail bug after all
> Hey Jim,
>
> Do you realize that when you post your mail to this list, your messages
are invisible to me? It's the comma in "Jones, Jr." that
> kills the message. Ironically, a message I sent out earlier today had the
phrase "invisible" (with the quotes) in the subject line,
> and it also came up invisible. The only I am now seeing these messages
(including yours) is because I went to the server and
> directly edited the mail.mbx file to remove anything causing a problem
(like your comma).
>
> Let's start by seeing if we're sharing the same problem: what protocol do
you use for your clients to access IMail? All of my
> problems have been linked to IMAP, although someone else wrote to me
claiming the same problem with POP3.
>
> Second, look at the headers of your "invisible" messages and see if there
are "odd" characters in the From:, To:, CC:, or Subject
> lines. A comma would be one problem, a quote, backslash, or parenthesis
could also be a problem. If you have access to your IMail
> server, you can directly edit the main.mbx file to see if the "invisible"
messages become visible.
>
> I wish some more people would speak up. I know I've received a few
messages over the last couple of weeks, but I don't have a list.
>
> Ben
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Jones Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Invisible mail may be IMail bug after all
>
>
> > OK, so, I have been asking about this for a couple of years and these
were
> > my first suspicions... everyone (including Ipswitch & Microsoft people)
> > blamed Outlook (express or otherwise)...
> >
> > I hope that Ipswitch is listening to this, because this has been along
time
> > in the waiting for it to get fixed !
> >
> > Thanks you guys for finally pointing the finger to someone who might
> > actually fix it !
> >
> > Jim
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Invisible mail may be IMail bug after all
> >
> >
> > > > IMAP: 11:21:46 [rx] ENVELOPE ("Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:57:00 -0500"
> > > > "Re: [IMail Forum] invisible mail" ((NIL NIL ""Jim
> > > > Jones" "bcw4.bcwebhost.net")) ((NIL NIL "IMail_Forum-
> > > > owner" "list.ipswitch.com")) ((NIL
> > > > NIL "IMail_Forum" "list.ipswitch.com")) ((NIL NIL
> > > > "IMail_Forum" "list.ipswitch.com")) NIL NIL NIL
> > "<007501c0bc56$b81076f0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>")
> > > > RFC822.SIZE 6950 UID 973206050 FLAGS () INTERNALDATE "3-Apr-2001
> > > > 07:50:00 -0800")
> > >
> > > Here's my take on this. It looks like IMail *IS* choking on the comma
in
> > the E-mail address, and is causing the problem with the "invisible
> > messages".
> > >
> > > It looks like the part of the log right after the subject should be a
> > parsed version of the E-mail address, in the format '( "user name",
> > "something", "username", "domain" )'. However, when there is a comma in
the
> > user name, it appears that it chokes, and gets the username from the
very
> > first character of the "From" address (the quote). So, it thinks the
E-mail
> > address in this case is '"Jim
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
> > >
> > > >IMAP: 11:21:46 [db] PARSE ERROR: hr=2148322516
> > >
> > > This would make sense, as the From: address is obviously malformed (by
> > IMail), as it has a space and a quote in it, neither of which are
allowed.
> > >
> > > I haven't looked at IMAP log files before, so I can't say much with
> > certainty. But, it looks suspiciously like we've found the culpit, and
it
> > would explain why all works well with the same headers using another
mail
> > server.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Scott
> > >
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