Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2005-02-22 Thread Lars Immisch
Hi, Also, when running test transfers, I am experiencing more weird error messages from mailutil, such as "message contain NUL character". It seems that my users mailboxes contain a lot of crap. I remember, I had those a lot when I converted my old Unix mailboxes that had NeXTMail attachments in t

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-10 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Mark Crispin wrote: > I suggest that you ask the maintainers of the Cyrus server if there is > a way to disable that check. Otherwise, there is no way that you can > truly copy your messages. I disabled myself these checks in the cyrus source, and then all the transfers we

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-09 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: Mark, which above conditions are accepted or rejected by UW-IMAP ? UW imapd does not reject any of these; it will accept whatever garbage you throw at it. Whether it does anything useful with that garbage subsequently depends upon the nature of that ga

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-09 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Cliff Green wrote: >> Just a note - that's okay for an mbox-format folder, mbx folders are a >> different story; you'll probably need to copy those messages to an mbox >> folder, remove the extra header, then move them back to the mbx

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-09 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Cliff Green wrote: Just a note - that's okay for an mbox-format folder, mbx folders are a different story; you'll probably need to copy those messages to an mbox folder, remove the extra header, then move them back to the mbx folder. What's OK for an mbox format mailbox is also

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-09 Thread Cliff Green
On Dec 8 at 10:58pm, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: NK> Cliff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: NK> NK> > Today at 7:17pm, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: NK> NK> > NK> When I use mailutil transfer to copy a whole mailbox hierarchy from a NK> > NK> uw-imap server to a cyrus one, it sometimes fails with the err

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-09 Thread tom
Quoting Nicolas Kowalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also, when running test transfers, I am experiencing more weird error > messages from mailutil, such as "message contain NUL character". It > seems that my users mailboxes contain a lot of crap. > > -- > Nicolas > So these mailboxes were first con

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-09 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a program you may download from sourceforge which will usually correct > corrupt MBX files. > > The url is http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbxuncorrupter/ > > You may be able to fix the MBX file then mailutil won't gripe. Any > unrecoverable mail fragments wil

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-08 Thread tom
I have a program you may download from sourceforge which will usually correct corrupt MBX files. The url is http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbxuncorrupter/ You may be able to fix the MBX file then mailutil won't gripe. Any unrecoverable mail fragments will be put into separate text files. Ho

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Cliff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today at 7:17pm, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: > NK> When I use mailutil transfer to copy a whole mailbox hierarchy from a > NK> uw-imap server to a cyrus one, it sometimes fails with the error > NK> "message contains invalid header", and then stops. > NK> > N

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there a way to make mailutil ignore these badly formatted messages >> and continue the transfer ? > > That problem (the check for "invalid header") is not in mailutil; it's > in the Cyrus server. The Cyrus server is refusing to accept the > message i

Re: mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-08 Thread Mark Crispin
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Nicolas Kowalski wrote: When I use mailutil transfer to copy a whole mailbox hierarchy from a uw-imap server to a cyrus one, it sometimes fails with the error "message contains invalid header", and then stops. Is there a way to make mailutil ignore these badly formatted messages

mailutil transfer and bad messages

2004-12-08 Thread Nicolas Kowalski
Hello. When I use mailutil transfer to copy a whole mailbox hierarchy from a uw-imap server to a cyrus one, it sometimes fails with the error "message contains invalid header", and then stops. Is there a way to make mailutil ignore these badly formatted messages and continue the transfer ? Than