On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 10:25 -0700, Gary Funck wrote:

I recently looked into a problem that has been plaguing me since the switch to dovecot a couple of years back, documented here: http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/pipermail/procmail/2006-May/024363.html

The gist is that when I tell Outlook 2000 to write all outgoing mail into a Sent-mail folder on the IMAP server (using mbox format), I find that the mbox's don't have empty lines separating the messages, (though the Content-Length field is correct. This leads to interoperability problems with programs and scripts that expect each mbox message to be separated by an empty line.

(We're running dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7 under Fedora Core 5 on an x86_64 platform.)

Has this mbox behavior been reported before? Is it considered a bug or a feature? Is there a configuration option, or Outlook tweak, that can be enabled to ensure that the mbox's produced by writing messages to them via Outlook, are well-formed (have an empty line separating messages)?

It's in my TODO:

- always add empty line. make the parser require it too? syncing should
  make sure there always exists two LFs at end of file. raw-mbox-stream
  should make sure the last message ends with LF even if it doesn't exist
  in the file

But it's not in any high priority for me, so unlikely to get fixed anytime soon..