imclient >4k literal error

[Igor Brezac]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:28:06PM -0500, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> > See Also:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=333
> >
> > In practice, not many applications use libcyrus for reading email, the
> > closest we generally see is for small things like cyradm.  So there hasn't
> > been pressure to fix it.
>
> Thanks for the tip. We regularly see the question "I am moving from Brand X
> imapd to Cyrus, how can I move the mail?" and the answers are usually of an
> on disk file format conversion nature, so I'm just writing imapcp using
> libcyrus => do{fetch,append}. I thought all was well until I tried mail with
> a large attachment..
>

Check out 'mailutil'.   It comes with pine distro or
c-client library: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap.tar.Z

-- 
Igor