Re: imap not preserving blank lines in mbox format

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Ken Olum <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> I'm using squirrelmail and reading my mbox-format inbox via imap.  It
> appears that if I delete a message using squirrelmail, subsequent
> messages in the file lose the blank line that should be present before
> the "From " delimiter that marks the start of the message.  A bug in the
> imap server?

The server knows nothing about the underlying mailbox structure.  It's
the library that fiddles with it.  Consequently, if it happens, it
should also happen when deleting messages using any other tool.
Therefore, please try opening any mailbox with the 'mail' utility from
mailutils, delete any single message from it, save the mailbox, quit
and then check if the same change occurs.  Its better to make a copy
of the original mailbox so that you can just diff it against the changed
one.

Regards,
Sergey