Re: [Evolution] broken up emails & changing file associations

[Matthias Schoener <matthias schoener net>]

Hello simran,

I had actually read your post on the evo board a while ago, where you
mentioned the empty emails you get. That thread seemed headed in another
direction, though, so I didn't pick it up.

As for your question: I am not on 123ehost, I am with RotoHost. But
their SpamAssassin is indeed activated with CPanel. I also have a couple
of other domains hosted with different providers, who also offer
SpamAssassin via CPanel. But I haven't activated the SpamAssassin on
those, and I don't have a problem with chopped up emails.

My guess is that SpamAssassin in certain circumstances introduces
characters into the emails that Evolution interprets as an
end-of-message(line feed, followed by a period).

I will change the Evolution settings to retain messages on the server,
and then compare the Evolution inbox with the same messages pulled
through , say, kmail, or web mail. That might give some clues.

Matthias

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:33, simran wrote:
> I have a similar problem on hosting a site with 123ehost.com. It started
> when they updated their version of CPANEL to include spamassassin... 
> (i don't know if you are hosting with them, but a lot of hosting
> companies use cpanel, and i think its that associated with spamassassin
> that is broken). 
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 12:30, Matthias Schoener wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 17:08, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > 2. I have recently started to notice a significant number of broken-up
> > > > messages. In other words, two messages hit my inbox, with the second one
> > > > having no date, no subject and a body which is either empty or contains
> > > > the bottom portion missing from the other message. It appears that this
> > > > started happening shortly after I activated SpamAssassin on my web
> > > > host's mail server.
> > >
> > > Sounds like a spam assassin bug/misconfiguration.  Is the mail server or
> > > your box Solaris?  It uses a different mailbox format which can lead to
> > > weirdities like this.
> >
> > I agree: It's not Evolution. I poll 4 different email accounts with
> > Evolution, and the problem only occurs with one; the one on which
> > SpamAssassin is enabled.
> >
> > To clarify: I am not running any MTA on my box. It's only a workstation
> > that gets email from my web hosts/ISPs.
> >
> > FWIW, the account in question is on a Linux server, running the exim v
> > 3.36 MTA.
> >
> > Matthias
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Matthias Schoener <matthias schoener net>