On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Richard Mayhew wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have been able to integrate Courier IMAP and XMail together with very
> little fuss.
>
> I used Courier with the userdb auth method, a small convert script which I
> wrote and a few config changes. It runs like a dream except for the way
> XMail writes its messages to disk. XMail writes its message files with the
> <CR><LF> at the end of each line rather than just <LF>. Unfortunately
> Courier only works with message file terminating each line with <LF>.
>
>
>                  <CRLF> ::= <CR> <LF>
>             <CR> ::= the carriage return character (ASCII code 13)
>             <LF> ::= the line feed character (ASCII code 10)
>
>
> What makes it even more of a problem is the fact that if I were to parse
> this message though a dos2unix filter, xmail still requires that the
> message lines end with <CR><LF>. At least allowing my filter to convert the
> message to <LF> would make the difference between a working IMAP server and
> a broken IMAP server.

XMail do require CRLF if the message has to be delivered remotely or if
the user access the mailbox with POP3. If the message is delivered locally
*and* IMAP is the only access, then you can write your own filter.



- Davide

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