I've tried to dig through the archives a few times, but haven't found
good info on the problems people were having with 'message contains bare
newlines'. I get several of these a week from the linux kernel mailing
list.
Messages like this get abandoned in /var/spool/mqueue; i.e., 'mailq'
doesn't list 'em, but 'ls /var/spool/mqueue' sure does! Essentially, it
seems like cyrus+sendmail just lets these messages drop on the floor -
yech!
Any clue whether this behavior was fixed in .25beta? I took a quick
look at the code; nothing in the vicinity of the bare-newline check
appeared to have changed. So I just put in an (UGLY) little hack, which
munges a bare newline to an 'X'. I guess it would also be easy to make
cyrus just ignore these, but I thought an X might stand out so I'd see
where it's occuring. (not yet)
I remember people saying bare newlines violated RFC's, but shouldn't
cyrus be as lenient as possible in what it accepts, and as compliant as
possible in what it sends/produces?
regards,
David
P.S. Thanks for all the work you guys are doing on cyrus - other than a
few glitches early on, it's been working real well here at the college.
Ken Murchison wrote:
>
> John Holman wrote:
> >
> > > I've thrown a tarball containing cyrus imapd 1.6.25 at
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/BETA/cyrus-imapd-1.6.25.tar.gz
> > >
> > > If no one has any (serious) complaints in the next two days, I'll move
> > > this file up one level and announce it widely.
> >
> > I can't find any such announcement - what's the current status? Is there a
> > list of changes between this and 1.6.24?
>
> Here's the list of changes that I *know* are in 1.6.25 because I checked
> them in myself. What (if anything) else Larry might have put in, I
> don't know. I'm now running 2.x, so I haven't looked at the 1.6 code in
> a while. If you're *really* curious, just check CVS yourself.
>
> - added tcl 8.2 to configure
> - 'const'-ified deliver/timsieved/test to match sieve prototypes
> - added 'singleinstancestore', 'sendmail', 'postmaster' and
> 'imapidresponse' imapd.conf options
> - added sendmail error strings
> - fixed sendmail child process bug (vacation, redirect, reject)
> - use empty return address for sieve actions which use sendmail
> - added in-reply-to header to vacation responses
> - changed auto-submitted header keyword to auto-replied
> (matches upcoming sendmail 8.12)
> - fixed ending boundary for vacation MIME responses
> - more paranoid ID implementation
> - SEARCH HEADER fix (only searches header content)
> - mboxname fix (tjs's UTF-7 fix)
> - installsieve/timsieved disable script fixes
> - sieve fixes:
> * makefile fixes
> * subaddress fixes
> * vacation fixes
> * STOP fix
>
> Ken
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