I use Mulberry 3.1.6 on Windows to read my mails with dovecot 0.99.12 Solaris 9. There are some mail which I cannot read. When I try to open such a mail, dovecot quits and restarts (I can see that with ps, nothing is logged). The Mulberry log just looks like this:

| --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | A00009 FETCH 695 (BODY.PEEK[1]) | * 695 FETCH (BODY[1] {61} | | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | * OK dovecot ready. | | --> #7.2300 Sun Dec 19 12:59:33 2004 | A00001 CAPABILITY | * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE AUTH=PLAIN | A00001 OK Capability completed

Looks like it just restarts the connection. The interesting thing is, that I can access the file with Netscape 4.8 via dovecot.

The problem is the following: I copied the file in the Maildir directory, opened the copied file with vi and saved it. Now, I run a diff:

| $ diff orig:2,S copy:2,S | Warning: missing newline at end of file orig:2,S | 12c12 | < http://forums.mtgnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35559 | --- | > http://forums.mtgnews.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=35559

As you can see, vi adds the newline on the last line automatically if you save the file. Now, Mulberry/dovecot is able to read this file. I'm not sure if this is a dovecot or Mulberry problem.

btw: This problematic mail was created with Mulberry 3.1.6. ;-)

Sven