Hi

First an introduction:
  I want to set up a small box running a complete mail system. Mostly 
for testing purposes, but also to gather all my various E-mail addresses 
in one place. The box is running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with some packages 
from testing (next version of Debian 2.3). I plan to use fetchmail 
(5.3.3) to empty my 5 different mailboxes, exim (3.12) for SMTP and 
Cyrus for IMAP. Unfortunately, Debian packaging is a little behind the 
developers as the current version of Cyrus is 1.5.19.
The idea is then to move all my existing archived mail to IMAP folders.

The problem:
Everything has worked seamlessly prior to smoketesting. I RTFM and added 
the exim hitch from the FAQ and was able to fetch mail and log into 
Cyrus from a different box.
I then tried to move messages from local folders to IMAP folders and 
while some messages could be moved, others were rejected with the error 
'invalid headers'.
I found something similar in the mailing list archives, but that was a 
few years ago. The problem was then thought to be related to either 8 
bit chars in headers or badly formed headers due to MUA bugs. The 
proposed fix was to remove a check for bad headers in message.c (or 
something like that), with possibly bad consequences.

I would like to know if this problem has been fixed in the new versions. 
I call it a problem because I cannot use Cyrus if it unexpectedly 
rejects some of my mails. I also use and correspond with people who use 
8 bit character sets (Icelandic and Danish), so rejecting badly formed 8 
bit headers is not acceptable (since some people use shitty MUAs).

I tried it with Mozilla Messenger (0.8) and Outlook Express (5.0).

Other than this I like what I see in Cyrus and I would like to thank the 
developers for making it available as free software.

Thanks in advance.
Regards, Ólafur

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Ólafur Freyr Hjálmsson          <  E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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