On 26.10.2006 23:57, Marten Lehmann wrote: > exim. It can handle even emails with NUL characters and 8bit headers, > but I guess all up2date MTAs (like postfix or sendmail) are capable of > this. Well, that's a bad comparison between MTA and your mail storage! A MTA normally doesn't care about the body. It just has SMTP envelopes to work with. MAIL FROM, RCPT TO and DATA is all it really needs (I know that very simplified, it adds Received: lines and so on). If the message header or body in the DATA part is seriously broken it doesn't make much problems (in 99,9% of all cases). But your Cyrus IMAPd has to work with these headers! It has to be able to sort by date, search for message ID, index the body, search for any header field! So you cannot just ignore errors in Cyrus. But perhaps you could use a program in between your MTA and cyrus which corrects these problems automagically. But I don't really know of any scalable solution for that. procmail piping to a script or similar sounds very overhead for me, but I'm not sure here... Best, Daniel ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
