[Dovecot] mbox empty messages in Sent folder

[Diego Liziero]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 15:08 +0200, Diego Liziero wrote:
>> I'm talking about mbox Sent folder, where some mailers append through
>> imap server
>> a copy of each message they send.
>>
>> Sometimes, just three header lines got appended instead of the whole
>> mail message, such as:
>>
>> >From xxxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx  Fri May 23 12:30:14 2008
>> X-UID: 2852
>> Status: RO
>
> Are there other messages around it with the same From-line? Could this
> From-line be part of the previous message's body?

The empty mail header is part of a sent email that is missing in the
Sent mbox file.
The previous From header and the following one are correctly the ones
of the previous and following sent emails.
Here is the mbox lines starting fom the previous mail, and ending to
the header of the following one
(in this case it seems that the actual previous mail has been deleted
as UID 2851 is missing, but I have other examples where no UID is
missing):

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>From xxxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx  Fri May 23 12:15:17 2008
Message-ID: <xxxxxxxx.xxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:15:06 +0200
From: xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx <xxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
User-Agent: xxxxxxxxxxx x.x.x.xx (xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx)
MIME-Version: x.x
To: xxxxxxx <xxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>,
 xxxxxxx xxxx <xxxxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx x xxxxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxxxxx xx xxxxxxxx...
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-UID: 2850
Status: RO
X-Keywords:
Content-Length: 336

xxxxxxx,

 xx xxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xx - xxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxx xx xxxxx xx xxxxxxx xxxx'xxxxxx xxxxxxxx.



-- 
xxxxxx xx xxxxx - xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx
xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
xxx xxx xxxxxxxx, x - xxxxx xxxxx (xx)
xxx.: xxx.xxxxxx
xxx:  xxx xxx.xxx
xxxx.: xxx.xxxxxxx
xxxxx: xxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx



>From xxxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx  Fri May 23 12:30:14 2008
X-UID: 2852
Status: RO

>From xxxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx  Sat May 24 08:24:09 2008
Message-ID: <xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:24:02 +0200
From: xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx <xxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
User-Agent: xxxxxxxxxxx x.x.x.xx (xxxxxxx/xxxxxxxx)
MIME-Version: x.x
To: xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx <xxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxx at xxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
Subject: xxxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx,xxxxxxxxxx xxxx (x xxxxxxx
xxxx) xxxxxxxx
 xxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 xxxxxxxx="------------xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
X-UID: 2853
Status: R
X-Keywords:
Content-Length: 4591

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Regards,
Diego