[Gllug] Unix Mailbox format / Exchange POP3 connector etc.

[Jake Jellinek]

Shhh! OK I admit it, there was a config problem and it was nothing to do
with Qmail. (I was running an old version of vmailmgrd and the vdeliver
binary has a -f option which removes this extra non rfc2822 compliant
"from" header before dropping it, which I guess should always be set if
you are using Maildirs. Somewhere in the docs I probably didn't read
something when I set it up originally.)

My POP3 server could probably have been helpful and removed this extra
line before it sent it on to the POP3 client, but I guess it wasn't
expecting to see it.

(goes away and hides)

Jake.

P.S. I still managed to blame Microsoft to my satisfaction and told the
customer how lucky it was we were using Open Source software and were
able to change things at our end so easily to comply with the MS
softwares stringent requirements. Outlook never complained about this
extra header ;-)


On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 11:24, David Damerell wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 Feb 2002, Jake Jellinek wrote:
> >No, we too have lots of customers using it perfectly well, but this is some 
> >other product I think, something like Exchange POP3 connector as a seperate 
> >thing. I dunno, I usually keep away from anything much to do with Microsoft.
> >They keep quoting knowledgebase articles to back up what they are being 
> >told about non rfc2822 complaince etc.
> 
> Um, well; RFC 1939 says;
> 
> All messages transmitted during a POP3 session are assumed to conform
> to the standard for the format of Internet text messages [RFC822].
> 
> Of course, RFC822 requires that all headers be in the format 
> <header name>: <text>
> so perhaps your POP3 server is at fault after all.
> 
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