Bare newlines

[Bill Earle]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, John Alton Tamplin wrote:

> Sebastian Konstanty Zdrojewski wrote:
>
> > I was attempting to move an email message from a local account onto an
> > IMAP directory located on Cyrus. The client I am using is Netscape
> > Mail and usually it gives me no problems. This time, I am not able to
> > move the message because the client gives the following error:
> >
> > Unable to perform operation. Message contains bare newlines.
> >
> > The message has an attached PDF file (2Mb size) and a signature with
> > image integrated. Any idea of what can be my problem?
>
> In IMAP, messages are required to have \r\n as line terminators, not
> just \n.  Many other IMAP servers (or mail clients' local folders) do
> not enforce strict RFC compliance, while Cyrus does -- when we converted
> from UW-IMAP to Cyrus I had to write code to munge messages into the
> proper format (8 bit or null data in headers, and bogus headers are the
> other two issues you will likely run into).

John,

How are you dealing with "8 bit or null data in headers, and bogus
headers"?

- Bill


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