dovecot - Dec 2002 - 0.99.4 uploaded to Debian

Hi,

I'm the Debian maintainer of UW-Imap.  Like many I'm somewhat frustrated
with the limitations of it so I am very pleased to see that Dovecot is
becoming a strong alternative.  I have uploaded packages of 0.99.4 to the
Debian unstable distribution (sid).  Because this is a new package it has
to be added by hand so it may be a while before it shows up in sid.  In
the mean time, I have made the packages (also for stable or woody)
available from http://www.braincells.com/open/  Debian users, please take
a look and give me some feedback.

Unfortunately much to my embarrasment I can't currently use dovecot on my
own account.  I get a meesage like this in /var/log/syslog:

  Dec 18 09:01:31 samadhi imap(jaldhar): Error indexing mbox file
  /home/jaldhar/mail/inbox: LF not found where expected

The mbox in question is about 17MB and opens fine in uw-imapd.  Any clues?

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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org>
It's a girl! See the pictures - http://www.braincells.com/shailaja/

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:47, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> I'm the Debian maintainer of UW-Imap.  Like many I'm somewhat
frustrated
> with the limitations of it so I am very pleased to see that Dovecot is
> becoming a strong alternative.  I have uploaded packages of 0.99.4 to the
> Debian unstable distribution (sid). 
Great, I've been waiting for that a few months now :) 0.99.5 should
probably come soon too, if I only figured why Dovecot's indexes
sometimes break when deleting mails with mutt.
>   Dec 18 09:01:31 samadhi imap(jaldhar): Error indexing mbox file
>   /home/jaldhar/mail/inbox: LF not found where expected
> 
> The mbox in question is about 17MB and opens fine in uw-imapd.  Any clues?
Do you happen to have two From lines next to each others there? Like:
>From a at b ...
>From b at c ...
I think that's the only case Dovecot doesn't currently handle. I tried
to fix it for that a few times but the code just gets uglier and I
figured it's not worth the trouble since only time I've had it happen is
with some Dovecot bugs.