hi ken,
thx for the reply =)
anyway, can/does cyrus-imap store/process msgs w/ UNIX line endings? where/how do i specify such?
Cyrus doesn't mangle line endings of messages in any way. It expects them to be in RFC 2822 format (CRLF) and stores them that way on disk.
ok. <reading ... http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html>. thx.
i guess some of my (current) confusion stems from the fact that the same message sent from my client (Mulberry) to a cyrus imap store, and to a 'different' server (CGPro, in this case), both of which are _supposed_ to be 'standards compliant' (which i assume means/includes RFC 2822), ends up stored on disk with different line-ending formats. specifically, cyrus-imap has DOS-style, and CGPro has UNIX-style.
How they are stored on disk, shouldn't really matter, because *all* access to the messages should be via one of the Cyrus supported protocols (POP3, IMAP, NNTP) or tools, not by direct access to the mail store.
fair enuf. prob'ly good advice =)
fwiw, the primary reason i'm looking at the line endings is that i'll eventually be writing a migration script from other message stores to cyrus ... although your comments lead me to think that i should NOT do such a task via direct file-level access/manipulation, but rather via a protocol tool, like openeing/using an imap session itself ...
another reason i'm 'looking inside' is that i'm (perhaps unwisely and if/until i learn more abt cyrus's indexing capabilities ...) considering the use of a search engine (mnogosearch, in my case) on my message store, and hence, am interested in msgs' text formats ...
so, all that said, and recognizing that it 'shouldn't matter', and that *cyrus* 'isn't' mangling' the line endings, am i correct in understanding, then, that it's NEITHER a postfix or cyrus issue? should i be looking to my client (Mulberry) for a solution? it just seems odd to be ending up with DOS line endings on a Mac/UNIX platform ... and that something _must_ be 'wrong'.
thx again & cheers,
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