On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:03:14AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 16:03 -0500, Hokan wrote: > > When an mbox email contains a line that looks like a "Mail" header > > it should be quoted (per RFC 4155). Sendmail's delivery agent does > > this, as does Procmail delivery agent. Dovecot deliver does not > > do this. > > > > Example line, with ">" quote: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 8 17:28:01 2008 > > > > When reading email (IMAP) that contains such an unquoted line, the > > email abruptly ends before the "Mail" line. There may (or may not) > > appear another email (visible to the client) that contains the rest > > of the email. > > Dovecot is supposed to use Content-Length: header to skip over the mail > body so it wouldn't require From lines to be quoted. This used to work > with v0.99, but it got broken at some point. > > I've also thought about quoting From line, and maybe I'll do that if I > can't get Content-Length: to work properly. An annoying problem with the > quoting is that it changes the mail content and breaks things like PGP > signatures. > > Anyway this is in my "would be a nice fix for v1.1.0, but doesn't block > a release" TODO category.
Thanks for the reply! This is a big problem when it happens; very confusing for the end user. But it seems to be a rare occurance.