[Dovecot] Dovecot LDA

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 17:35 -0500, Steven F Siirila wrote:
> This matches up with what I'm seeing in our raw mailboxes.
> 
> > This is how it looks after being handled by KMail:
> > 
> > 	From sfs at tc.umn.edu Mon Oct 9 17: 28:37 2006
> > 	Return-Path: <sfs at tc.umn.edu>

Note that this is wrong. The From_-line shouldn't be sent to clients at
all. Looks like most don't care that much though.

I'd anyway really suggest fixing the double-From_-line problem since it
most likely is going to cause problems at some point.

> I verified that this is the case; it appears that Dovecot itself is perhaps
> taking only the most-recently-encountered "From_" header when returning the
> message to the MUA.
..
> We currently have some archival scripts that look for "From_" headers in
> order to determine when the next message starts.  We may have to modify them.
> It seems that the delimiter between messages should be "\n\nFrom ", not just
> "\nFrom " .

Right. This is why it works in Dovecot.

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