Michael Wyraz wrote:
>Hello Davide, Hello mailinglist users,
>I joined the mailing list today and move this thread to the list. Maybe
>someone has
>already solved my problem...
>
>
>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>i have two questions to the handling of newline characters in xmail.
>>>
>>>I saw that xmail uses cr/lf for mail files even when running on linux.
>>>Is there a way to
>>>change that to unix cr (maybe as a compiletime option)? I'm using
>>>courier-imap with xmail
>>>and the dos-linefeeds causes strange behavior with some imap clients.
>>>I discussed that with the courier-imap people but they will not support
>>>cr/lf under unix because
>>>(and that's also my oppinion) unix software should use unix linefeeds.
>>>
>>>Are the linefeeds configured at a single point in xmail (like
>>>POP3_USER_SPLITTERS in POP3Utils.h)?
>>>In that case the change would be very easy i think.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>The reason XMail uses crlf is because it is the RFC format for messages
>>*and* XMail uses sendfile() on linux w/out the need of readline/sendline
>>crappy loops. I believe someone on the mailing list already had courier
>>working with XMail in some way.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>I had a look to the sourcecode of xmail today and tried around a bit
>with xmail and with courier.
>The problem is not that courier is not working. The problem is that
>courier replaces LF with CRLF
>for sending. This results in CRCRLF which causes problems with some mail
>clients.
>
>It seems there's no easy solution for my problem:
>* XMail uses very efficient code to send a mail because it can send
>mails as they are. It's maybe a lot of work
>to add CR/LF transformation :(
>* the Courier people will definitely not change the file format that is used
>
>The only thing i could do is to migrate fully to courier. But that's bad
>because i like the way xmail is designed
>and it works very well since a long time.
>
>
>What do you think how much work it would be to add (optional) CR/LF
>transformation to xmail?
>How many things must be changed?
>Would a modified SysDepLinux.cpp do the thing? In that case at least
>some SmtpServer code
>(the part that receives/writes a mail) must be modified to access system
>dependend code.
>
>
>Hope you can help me.
>
>Thanks a lot.
>Michael.
>
>
>
Hi Michael, the solution to this is not to modifiy Xmailserver but
to modify courier-imap to behave properly, and for Xmailserver there is
just a tiny patch that removes the possibility that the messages with
names mangled by courier to be shown twice while using pop3.
Patches are in:
http://mircea.smartpost.ro/download
Also are available RPMs and SRPMs for Mandrake Linux 9.2 on
http://mircea.interplus.ro/ftp/ultraupdates
Hope that helps,
Mircea
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