remote send mail to IMAP

[Samuel Sadek <sa...@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have previously raised this issue but unfortunately I didn't get a 
positive and meaningful response.
The issue here is the inability for JAMES server to receive mail attachments 
from a remote mail server like hotmail.com/yahoo.com to JAMES IMAP mail 
server. I am aware that the protocol is still under proposal and am 
currently evaluating it.

I have undergone two test case scenarios to achieve the receival of mail 
attachments to my JAMES IMAP server:

1) I have managed to get the sending/receival of local multipart messages 
working okay between local mail accounts residing local to the JAMES IMAP 
server. I have sent a binary (base64 encoding charset) to a local recipient 
and recipient is able to receive this and open it to view no problems.

2) I have undergone the same scenario as in 1) in that I used hotmail.com 
mail server to send the same multipart file attachments as previously in 1) 
and my JAMES IMAP server receives this okay but the problem resides when I 
attempt to open the attachment file and could not get to view this. Strange 
enough I was able to view the body content of the message i.e. the textual 
part okay but not able to read in the attachment file. I am using the 
FileMailBox mechanism to store received files in a local filesystem. I 
therefore used this approach: I have opened the original message file 
received in 1) and simply copied the binary content of the original file 
attachment and pasted it on top of the remote mail sent originally from 
Hotmail.com and saved the message file. Without restarting JAMES, I was then 
able to read in the file attachment. Weird!!! Can this be a problem in 
difference of encoding method schemes adopted by JAMES and Hotmail.com? The 
content types were identical in both multipart attachment content type 
headers and similarly the Content-Transfer-Encoding were the same.

Just to add in another confusion I have also noticed that the second 
multipart's attachment file as doubled in size as the IMAP client I use 
seems to have doubled the FETCH BODY[n] client requests to the server.

I would appreciate it a lot for your feedback on this matter.

Thanks in advance.

Sam.



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Re: remote send mail to IMAP

[Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>]

Sam,

Nobody is actively working on IMAP.  I hope to in the coming weeks, but 
nobody has touched the IMAP code in months and you're pretty much on 
your own debugging this one.
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Serge Knystautas
Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites
http://www.lokitech.com/

Samuel Sadek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have previously raised this issue but unfortunately I didn't get a 
> positive and meaningful response.
> The issue here is the inability for JAMES server to receive mail 
> attachments from a remote mail server like hotmail.com/yahoo.com to 
> JAMES IMAP mail server. I am aware that the protocol is still under 
> proposal and am currently evaluating it.
> 
> I have undergone two test case scenarios to achieve the receival of mail 
> attachments to my JAMES IMAP server:
> 
> 1) I have managed to get the sending/receival of local multipart 
> messages working okay between local mail accounts residing local to the 
> JAMES IMAP server. I have sent a binary (base64 encoding charset) to a 
> local recipient and recipient is able to receive this and open it to 
> view no problems.
> 
> 2) I have undergone the same scenario as in 1) in that I used 
> hotmail.com mail server to send the same multipart file attachments as 
> previously in 1) and my JAMES IMAP server receives this okay but the 
> problem resides when I attempt to open the attachment file and could not 
> get to view this. Strange enough I was able to view the body content of 
> the message i.e. the textual part okay but not able to read in the 
> attachment file. I am using the FileMailBox mechanism to store received 
> files in a local filesystem. I therefore used this approach: I have 
> opened the original message file received in 1) and simply copied the 
> binary content of the original file attachment and pasted it on top of 
> the remote mail sent originally from Hotmail.com and saved the message 
> file. Without restarting JAMES, I was then able to read in the file 
> attachment. Weird!!! Can this be a problem in difference of encoding 
> method schemes adopted by JAMES and Hotmail.com? The content types were 
> identical in both multipart attachment content type headers and 
> similarly the Content-Transfer-Encoding were the same.
> 
> Just to add in another confusion I have also noticed that the second 
> multipart's attachment file as doubled in size as the IMAP client I use 
> seems to have doubled the FETCH BODY[n] client requests to the server.
> 
> I would appreciate it a lot for your feedback on this matter.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Sam.


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