Hello, Well I feel like a dummy! I'd often wondered why I sometimes get double copies of an email in POP3. I never would have dreamed it had anything to do with Courier IMAP!
- Kelly > 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 > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
