Writing directly to email

[Edward Rudd]

First of all. you should NOT be altering the mail store directly.. That
is cyrus' internal format and it should not be messed with.. If you need
to send logs to the cyrus mail store, use the MAILTO feature of
logrotate, or use something like logwatch, or write your own script to
mail the logs to the user.. That is the only SAFE and sane way to change
the messages in the mail store. Mail them! or use IMAP to add new
messages to a folder.. But do NOT directly alter the mail store.

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 08:49, François LECOLIER wrote:
> Hi,
> I made a little test on my machine modifying a mail using vim, when I then
> read the message from my mail client it appears unchanged.
> 
> Then I used reconstruct on the mailbox and the text I added to the message
> appeared in my mail client.
> 
> regards
> françois
> 
> > Theoretically that would work, but unfortunately every client cdoes
> > things differently - especially caching.  Therefore any "nonstandard"
> > behavior is likely to cause different results for different clients.
> > 
> > -Brenden
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 20:32, Eli Cantu wrote:
> > > Quoting noel at rescommunes.ca:
> > > 
> > > > I was wondering if it was at all possible to pipe text form something like
> > > > logging into an email file with out screwing things up for Cyrus.
> > > >
> > > > For example, say i have a crown tab that appends new mail.err data to the
> > > > file /var/spool/imap/m/user/me/1. with just simple stdout redirection >>.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I just tried it on a message in my Trash directory. I appended using >>
> > > 
> > > I did not see the additional text I appended when I checked the message. 
> I then
> > > opened up the file in vi. I can see the appended text, it just doesn't show up
> > > in the mail client (imp). So I added two '^M's at the bottom, just as there
> > > originally was. Still no luck.  I deleted the message, and it deleted
> normally.
> > > 
> > > hmmmm.
> > > 
> > > e
> > > 
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