On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Ross Boylan wrote:
What was the *exact* text of the error message?
Message contains NUL characters
That message came from the Cyrus server.
The latest imap-2006 development snapshot now transforms all NULs in
message text being uploaded to an IMAP server into 0x80 characters. This
will eliminate this issue in mailutil.
According to the documentation you pointed me to, I can use
{machine/user=joe}
to eliminate one of the prompts.
Correct. I thought that you already know that. Sorry.
A small oddity is that I get (identifying info obscured)
The authenticity of host 'foo.server.com (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is [xxx]
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
{foo.server.com/imap} username: joe
Aha. Mailutil is trying to do an rsh-IMAP session, it's going through ssh
(probably because someone lunk ssh to the name rsh thinking that would be
a good thing), and it isn't succeeding. That must be a big factor in the
delays.
Try adding /norsh as well, e.g., {machine/user=joe/rsh}
Let me know if that cures the problem.
Also, I'm trying to figure out if there is a pre-processing phase
(first pass through the mailbox) followed by a delivery phase. This
would make identifying where the time is going easier. I infer from
what you say that reading/scanning the input and writing to the IMAP
server are interleaved, so the long time before I got the error was
not necessarily spent just in mailutil.
No, not quite. Mailutil has to locate all messages in the mailbox before
it can do anything else. With a 64MB traditional UNIX mailbox this will
take some time (the time you notice before you see the prompt for the
userid and password) but not 7 minutes.
I don't understand what you mean by "the UW IMAP site."
http://www.washington.edu/imap/
There is (or should be) a link there to all the documentation files.
-- Mark --
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Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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