[Dovecot] maildir format

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:37 +0200, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:
> On 03 May 2006, at 12:25, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 03:17 +0200, DINH Viêt Hoà wrote:
> >>      Hello Timo and other dovecot-dev or users,
> >>
> >>    It looks like Dovecot accepts (with APPEND command) messages that
> >> begins
> >> with 'From[SPACE]' line, which are not valid from RFC 2822 point of
> >> view.
> >> Additionnally, Dovecot will store them as they are APPENDed, I mean
> >> with the starting 'From[SPACE]' line, which generates a bad Maildir
> >> format.
> >
> > The alternative would be to fail the operation completely. I don't see
> > that as very good idea.
> >
> >> The message is normally in RFC
> >>            822 format, starting with a Return-Path line and a
> >>            Delivered-To line, but it could contain arbitrary binary
> >>            data.  It might not even end with a newline.
> >
> > Here the "could contain arbitrary binary data" looks to me like there
> > aren't really any restrictions as to what the message could contain,
> > including a From-line at the beginning :).
> >
> 
> You could combine both :
> accepting mails with 'From[SPACE]' and stripping this line while  
> storing the mail.

Sounds a bit evil to just modify what the user wanted to save.

> (And by the way, I should accept Maildir messages with 'From[SPACE]'  
> at the beginning ;) )

Sounds like a better solution :)

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