dovecot - Jul 2006 - Problems with deliver (LDA)

Hi,

I'm using Dovecot's (1.0.rc2) 'deliver' (no sieve) as LDA -
calling it
from a .qmail file.

It seems that 'deliver' destroys "message/rfc822" attachments
(forward
as attachment).

My .qmail file looks like this, and use qmail to deliver a copy directly
to my Maildir, and 'deliver' to deliver a second copy of the same
message to the same Maildir:

% cat .qmail
./Maildir/
|preline /usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver

After forwarding a message (as attachment) to my account, I get the
following 2 files in my Maildir. Check the difference in size:

% ls -l Maildir/new
-rw-------  1 csa csa 2818 2006-07-06 09:29 1152170973.7420.silver
-rw-------  1 csa csa 1372 2006-07-06 09:29 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver

Grepping for ^Content-* in the 2 mails show that a part is missing.

% cd Maildir/new
% grep ^Content *

1152170973.7420.silver:23:Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
1152170973.7420.silver:28:Content-Type: text/plain; charset =
"iso-8859-1"
1152170973.7420.silver:29:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
1152170973.7420.silver:34:Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Testing"
1152170973.7420.silver:35:Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
1152170973.7420.silver:36:Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Testing"
1152170973.7420.silver:64:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
1152170973.7420.silver:65:Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"

1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:24:Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:29:Content-Type: text/plain; charset =
"iso-8859-1"
1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:30:Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:35:Content-Type: message/rfc822;
name="Testing"
1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:36:Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver:37:Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Testing"

(sorry for the long lines)

The offset in linenumbers is caused the the From line added by
'deliver'.

So, am I missing something here (execpt from the attachment) - is there
anything in 'deliver' that could cause this behaviour?

Please let me know if you need further information or details.


Regards
/Claus A

Hi,

Claus Alboege <csa at csa-net.dk> writes:
> I'm using Dovecot's (1.0.rc2) 'deliver' (no sieve) as LDA -
calling it
> from a .qmail file.
>
> It seems that 'deliver' destroys "message/rfc822"
attachments (forward
> as attachment).
[...]
> % ls -l Maildir/new
> -rw-------  1 csa csa 2818 2006-07-06 09:29 1152170973.7420.silver
> -rw-------  1 csa csa 1372 2006-07-06 09:29
1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver
I've looked a bit further into this problem. On delivery 'deliver'
adds
a "From " (not "From: ") header. Why is that btw? - This is
Maildir
delivery.

Anyway, when a mail with a "From " header is forwarded as a
"message/rfc822" attachment and delivered with 'deliver'.
'deliver'
simply kills everything from the "From " line (in the
"message/rfc822"
attachment).

% grep -n -A6 "message/rfc822" 1152170973.7420.silver
34:Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Testing"
35-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
36-Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Testing"
37-
38-From csa at csa-net.dk Thu Jul 06 07:31:13 2006
39-Return-Path: <csa at csa-net.dk>
40-Delivered-To: csa at csa-net.dk
%

% grep -n -A6 "message/rfc822" 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver
35:Content-Type: message/rfc822; name="Testing"
36-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
37-Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Testing"
%

% wc -l 1152170973.*
  79 1152170973.7420.silver
  37 1152170973.P7422Q0M136220.silver

Any chance to get that fixed before Dovecot 1.0?


/Claus A