From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 21:20:50 CST
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> Lawrence Greenfield <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> It does _not_ work fine. It is no longer able to decode the headers to
>> support searching, sorting, or threading.
> Well that is not what was reported here when the issue was raised
> before. Could someone with experience of the Cyrus system please
> comment further?
As the person who reported it before, I can say canonically that you were
reading things into my message that I was not saying and that Lawrence is,
of course, correct. We make this modification locally because it means
that the message is there, if corrupted, and clients still sometimes
manage to cope, but degredation of all of the functions Lawrence mentions
is present, and if the recipient's e-mail client is not configured to use
the same 8-bit character set as the sender's e-mail client, the message
becomes unreadable and IMAP operations on it beyond the basics are
unlikely to work.
>> The differences between mail and news are trivial. It's ridiculous to
>> add to them.
> No they are not trivial.
That's a matter of opinion. I agree with Lawrence; I consider them to be
trivial.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>