Re: [Evolution] Evo splitting messages in odd ways

["Norman P. B. Joseph" <joseph ctc com>]

Jeff,

Thanks for that pointer.  As it turns out, the user who was also now
showing the symptoms had recently moved his mail spool from an old
SGI/IRIX host to my mail spool host, which is running Solaris.  I just
checked the sendmail.cf file on the Sun box and found that it does
appear to be using the Content-Length method rather than the "From "
method to delineate messages.  I'll change this option and observe the
behavior, but this explanation does seem to tie up all the loose ends I
was holding.  I expect this will fix it.  Thanks for that insight.

-norm



On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:51, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> The messages are probably being split on "From ..." lines as the BSD
> mbox format defines lines beginning with "From " to be message
> delimiters (and this is the format that Evolution uses since it is the
> most widely used).
>
> If your MTA host is running Solaris or some other system that instead
> uses the similar-but-not-at-all-compatable mbox format that SunOS came
> up with (that of Content-Length headers), then this sort of thing will
> happen.
>
> You can read more about this here:
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:47, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:
> > I know all the traffic has been on the 2.0 release, but I and some of my
> > users are seeing a strange problem in the 1.4.5 release of Evolution
> > that comes with RHEL 3, and I'm hoping someone here can shed some light.
> >
> > Every so often Evo seems to split an incoming message in two.  The
> > symptoms are usually a message with the bottom half missing, sometimes
> > right after the headers, sometimes further into the body, and a second
> > message in my inbox with no subject, no sender, and no date in the
> > message listing pane, and when I display it it invariably looks like the
> > tail end of some other message.
> >
> > Evo is apparently splitting a single incoming e-mail at some
> > inappropriate point and turning it into two separate messages in the
> > message list.  In my case, most of these messages seem to be mailing
> > list messages which I have filtered into separate folders, with the top
> > part of a message going to a folder and the remainder ending up as a "no
> > subject" message in my inbox, so I don't always know if they would show
> > up sequentially in an inbox otherwise.
> >
> > Mail here is delivered locally to a mailhub machine whose
> > /var/spool/mail directory is NFS mounted to clients like mine.  I have
> > my evo mail account set up with a server type set as "Local Delivery",
> > meaning evo periodically checks the NFS mounted spool directory and
> > moves any messages found there to my inbox under ~/evolution/local.  I
> > mention this since it seems the likely place for where the process might
> > be broken.
> >
> > I understand that 1.4.5 has just recently been eclipsed, but maybe
> > someone could confirm my observations or suggest a workaround, or maybe
> > someone has found that this is still an issue in 2.0.
> >
> > Thanks for any input or advice,
> >
> > -norm
>
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