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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 74254] attaching files with long lines causes message loss
From:       Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-02-05 17:46:00
Message-ID: 20040205174600.29328.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From burghardt@kde.org  2004-02-05 18:45 -------
Subject: Re:  New: attaching files with long lines causes message loss

On Thursday 05 February 2004 17:50, Torsten Kasch wrote:
> I've tried to attach a text file (HTML to be precise) with very long lines
> to a recipient with a mailbox on a cyrus 2.1.x IMAP server which imposes a
> line length limit of ~8k (which is way beyond the 998 chars required by
> RFC2822, section 2.1.1). The message was rejected with the (misleading)
> message "5.6.0 Message contains NUL characters (in reply to end of DATA
> command" but since the error mail contains a copy of the original message,
> it could not be delivered back to me (mailbox at the same site/system).
>
> Apart from the postmaster, nobody was notified of the delivery failure.

I agree that this is bad but what should we do in your eyes? Change the 
attachment? And the error is not from kmail but from the imap server so I 
don't see kmail's fault.


Carsten
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