[Dovecot] Blank lines in mailboxes

Jakob Curdes jc at info-systems.de
Tue Apr 26 13:23:58 EEST 2005


Timo Sirainen schrieb:

>On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:02 +0200, Jakob Curdes wrote:
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>>we  use dovecot on a regular basis. Sometimes I end up with a user 
>>telling me he does not get mail. When I look after the problem,
>>I always find leading blank lines in the mbox file. 
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>At the beginning of the file?
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>0.99.x's mbox handling isn't too good and it's known to cause this
>sometimes. 1.0-stable releases have rewritten mbox support which fixes
>this.
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Yes, at the beginning. Sometimes it's one line, sometimes 20 or 30.
What would I have to change before switching to the 1.0 branch ?
We use maildir, mbox for the inboxes, ssl, no other peculiarities.

Yours,
Jakob Curdes






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