Re: [Mailsync-list] Message contains bare newlines

[Tomas P. <tp...@so...>]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Fulup Ar Foll wrote:

> Trying to use mailsync to sync my working imap mail (netscape/iplanet) to my
> home Linux imap (cyrus). Synchronization work OK if I write msinfo file on
> disk, but I fail to write it on either imap. Here the message I get:
>
>> Error: Message contains bare newlines
>> Error: Can't append thistime to msinfo >
>> "{mail.fridu.homelinux.net/user=pl89586/ssl/novalidate-cert}mailsync"
>
> It looks like both Cyrus and iPlanet refuse the msinfo format because line end
> with base '\n' and not with the official "\r\n".
>
> Question: Is there a way to bypass this.

I guess not. I've found that ELM also works around this problem - see [1].

So you need to fix mailsync's sourcecode (in case you try this, it'd be 
nice to test if the fix is backward compatible (-> smooth transition to 
fixed mailsyn version)) in order to use a \r\n end-of line.

It's interesting to note however, that we're also using cyrus 
(1.5.19-9.1). So I synced my msinfo file to the IMAP server and that 
worked without problems. I was also able to copy a "message" from the 
msinfo folder from my local fs into a folder on the IMAP server. Does this 
also succeed for you?

Finally - why do you want to have the sync folder on the IMAP server? 
Looks like a bad idea to me...
*t


[1] http://ftp.iranscience.net/pub/Network/mail/elm-me/elm-2.4ME+.README

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