Double Carriage return breaks header ..

Patrick Welche prlw1 at newn.cam.ac.uk
Fri May 27 13:56:00 EDT 2005


On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:02:12AM -0400, Ken Murchison wrote:
> lists-cyrus at tripnet.se wrote:
> 
> >Hello list,
> >
> >We're currently running Cyrus IMAP 2.2.8 and having the following problem.
> >When a message arrives via LMTP with the header "Subject:
> >SUBJECTLINE\r\r\n" the message i broken and all other header-lines after
> >this line are put in the body! This is not cute at all ..
> >
> >I suppose this "conversion" happens in spool_copy_msg()?
> 
> Cyrus isn't converting anything.  What you're seeing is GIGO (garbage 
> in, garbage out).  The message is broken per RFC 2822.  You should 
> complain about the software that generated this message.

In my case (it must be in the mail archives) the double carriage return
came from Cyrus sieve's vacation message.

Cheers,

Patrick
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