huge bug

[David Chait]

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.

----- 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...
> >
>
>
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