huge bug

[David Chait]

This isn't something Cyrus can fix without seriously reworking the imap
daemon (not something they will do to repair a bug Qualcomm should deal
with). 5.2 and above seem to be fine, just have your clients on older
installs upgrade.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurent LAVAUD" <laurent.lavaud at u-bordeaux2.fr>
To: "David Chait" <davidc at bonair.stanford.edu>
Cc: <info-cyrus at andrew.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: huge bug


A 13:30 27/06/2003 -0700, vous avez écrit :
>Correct, it is a known bug with a lot of Eudora versions. Qualcomm has it's
>work cut out for itself to clean up that POS.

OK, but why does wu imap server works ?  Can we expect cyrus server to
correct this client issue ?
We can't tell all Eudora senders to change their habits and/or migrate to
Mulberry, Outlook...

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ken Murchison" <ken at oceana.com>
>To: "Laurent LAVAUD" <laurent.lavaud at u-bordeaux2.fr>
>Cc: <info-cyrus at andrew.cmu.edu>
>Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:15 PM
>Subject: Re: huge bug
>
>
> > If you want to send the message as it sits in the Cyrus and UW
> > mailstores (gzip it so that the mailer doesn't munge it) and possibly
> > capture the protocol log of the client trying to fetch the message, we
> > _might_ be able to figure out what is happening.
> >
> > My guess would be that Eudora is not formatting the MIME message
> > correctly (ill-formed/missing boundary?).
> >
> >
> >
> > Laurent LAVAUD wrote:
> > > huge bug for us...
> > >
> > > Here it is: when we compose mails with Eudora 5.02 or Eudora 5.2 with
>styled
> > > text and an attachment (an image for example), the same Eudora is
unable
>to
> > > read it correctly (the body contains strange code instead of showing
the
>text
> > > and the image link).
> > > This occurs only when we send the mail with the 2 formats proposed by
>Eudora
> > > (text only and styled text together).
> > >
> > > What make me think it's a cyrus bug is that if we send exactly the
same
>message
> > > to the same server that runs wu imap instead of cyrus, everything is
>fine!
> > >
> > > Huge for us because 80% of our clients are Eudora (about 2000 clients)
>and
> > > people often compose mails with styled texts and attachments...
> > >
> > > Is there an issue to this except telling our users (and our senders
but
>this
> > > should be more difficult) not to use Eudora ?
> > >
> > > The server is sendmail 8.9.12 + cyrus 2.1.13
> > >
> > > Thanks for issues if available...
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Murchison     Oceana Matrix Ltd.
> > Software Engineer     21 Princeton Place
> > 716-662-8973 x26      Orchard Park, NY 14127
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> >
> >
> >