[Imap-uw] mixcvt giving me an incinsistency message size error

Mark Crispin MRC at CAC.Washington.EDU
Fri May 4 20:33:26 PDT 2007


On Fri, 4 May 2007, nlin wrote:
> I also just had a thought.  If the problem is in the imap toolkit, does this 
> mean that mailutil would not have worked properly as well?  So that if I 
> converted a user's mailbox from either unix format or mbx format to the 
> mixfmt using pre 1/18/07 version, it would have corrected the mailbox?

The bug was in the pre 1/18/07 mix code, so a mailutil based on that code 
would have done this minor corruption with very large messages.

mixcvt never has the bug.  When it reports the warning, it is saying thagt 
it saw the problem in the mailbox from the buggy version.

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