Re: Odd behavior

[Kevin Kovach <kk...@kevinkovach.com>]

Has this been addressed yet? Is this a JAMES problem? I had this happen 
again and have switched back to an older version of JAMES. I'd like to 
be able to use the latest version of JAMES but don't want to have to 
remove email by hand each time this happens. Thanks.

- Kevin

Stephan Schiessling wrote:

>
> Now I also think, that there is a bug in James pop3 server  :-(
>
> I compared James behaviour with that of sendmail and another pop3 server.
> James and Sendmail add an extra dot at beginning of a text line, if 
> the text line starts with a dot.
> (Internally both do not store the extra dot.)
> James pop3 server does not add an extra dot, but the other pop3 server
> does add an extra dot !!!!!!!
>
> I cannot find a hint about this in pop3 rfc 1939 ???
>
> Bye,
>
> Stephan
>
> Jeff Keyser wrote:
>
>> Actually, I don't believe this is entirely true.  I believe that the 
>> sender
>> of a message should turn a line with a single dot into a line with 
>> two dots
>> (or some other transformation to prevent a single dot line), and the
>> receiver should reverse this to get the dot back.  It's been a long time
>> since I've looked at the SMTP/POP3 protocols, so please forgive me if 
>> I got
>> the exact method wrong.
>>
>> In any case, this may still be a James bug.  If the real message 
>> contains a
>> single line with a dot in its body, and James doesn't transform it while
>> handing it off to a POP3 client, this could cause the problem that 
>> Stephan
>> saw.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Danny Angus [mailto:danny@thought.co.uk]
>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:04 AM
>>> To: James Users List
>>> Subject: RE: Odd behavior
>>>
>>>
>>> this is dot stuffing, its the way that MTA's detect the end
>>> of a message
>>> body, single dot on a line by itself.
>>> If you want to send a dot to a friend (!) you should encode
>>> your mails using
>>> UUENCODE Base64 MIME or something like that.
>>> This is a fact of life.
>>>
>>> d.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Stephan Schiessling [mailto:s@rapi.com]
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:55 AM
>>>> To: James Users List
>>>> Subject: Re: Odd behavior
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now I can reproduce this error:
>>>>
>>>> If I send an email with a message body, which contains a
>>>>
>>> single dot in a
>>>
>>>> line,
>>>> Mozilla 0.9.8 cannot read this message and shows the error message,
>>>> that it cannot write into a mailbox. I think Mozilla
>>>>
>>> thinks, that the
>>>
>>>> message is
>>>> ended here .....
>>>> James has no problem to handle this email, so it is not
>>>>
>>> James's fault :-)
>>>
>>>> I will add this bug in bugzilla.
>>>>
>>>> Bye,
>>>>
>>>> Stephan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Danny Angus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oh My!
>>>>> sorry guys.. that bit of help backfired then.
>>>>>
>>>>> d.
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Stephan Schiessling [mailto:s@rapi.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:11 AM
>>>>>> To: James Users List
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Odd behavior
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got the same problem.
>>>>>> I think email of Danny Angus with subject: Re: telnet login
>>>>>> is the source of the problem.
>>>>>> In this email there are some SMTP commands. I think Mozilla has a
>>>>>> problem with it.
>>>>>> I removed this email by hand and restarted james. Then Mozilla
>>>>>> worked again.
>>>>>> I could not reproduce this error, so I do not know ....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bye,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Stephan
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kevin Kovach wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've installed the newest release of James and I'm
>>>>>>>
>>> getting some odd
>>>
>>>>>>> behavior. I've tried reading mail using the latest
>>>>>>>
>>> version of Mozilla
>>>
>>>>>>> (0.9.8) on both Windows and Linux and have had the same
>>>>>>>
>>> problem. The
>>>
>>>>>>> mail client seems tolog in and start to download the
>>>>>>>
>>> mial/headers,
>>>
>>>>>>> then says that it's not able to write to the local file
>>>>>>>
>>> system. I get
>>>
>>>>>>> a dialog box asking to check either disk space or
>>>>>>>
>>> permission. I have
>>>
>>>>>>> both, I assure you. Has anyone else experienced this? I
>>>>>>>
>>> started up
>>>
>>>>>>> James 1.2.1 and am able to recieve mail. This tells me I hav both
>>>>>>> space and permission on the disk. Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - Kevin
>>>>>>>
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