Hello,
I know this is agains mbox standard, but the problem is that I have over 100Gb of mail in mbox format, that IS working now. It was working under uw-imap, it was working under dovecot 0.99. And when I tried to switch over to dovecot 1.0 - boom. Not working. Am not sure why do I have this From_ lines in these mboxes. It's possible that I have them there from the time our mail was on VAX machine. But again, is that right to make a new version of some software that doesn't work with the data from the older (not much older, just previous) version of the program? Shouldn't that be the part of the 1.0 code, that will rewrite bad From_ lines to the right ones? Not because this is the right way to deal with "bad" data, but just because this is the upgrada of something, that WAS WORKING.
FiL
John Peacock wrote:
FiL @ Kpoxa wrote:
Dovecot is very restrictive on the message header format. UW-IMAP is much more tolerant.
The mbox From_ line doesn't support a full email address. It supposed to be the bare envelope sender (just the portion between <> in your example). UW-IMAP is not following the standards (as much as mbox format has a standard); Dovecot is following the mbox standard (and it should take all of a minute to write a Perl script to fix up those lines).
John