Re: Alpine and Save

The inbox-path is
{imap.saunalahti.fi/user=rvi-1}inbox
I tried to save about my another account, Gmail-account which is also 
connected to my Pc-Pine, and it works properly.
The problem relates to imap.saunalahti.fi / pop.saunalahti.fi server.
Best wishes
Riku

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Riku Virtanen wrote:
> How can I see what IMAP implementation is?

What is the host name of your IMAP server?  I may be able to find out from the
startup banner.

> Other programs, for example Mozilla, transfer attachments properly.
> This bug has been a big problem some years. My friends in Finland were not
> able to solve it.

There are two possibilities:

(1) The message is corrupt.

The most common problem is BASE64 or QUOTED-PRINTABLE content that is sent
without a MULTIPART wrapping it.  The problem is that many mail gateways (such
as Yahoo) add little advertising messages at the bottom of the message, and
there is nothing to prevent those messages from being misread as part of the
BASE64 or QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoded content.

Mozilla does not care if there are data errors or not.  It just ignores them,
and hopes that something useful results.

(2) The IMAP server does not do partial fetching properly.

Pine and Alpine use IMAP commands to retrieve part of a message.  This depends
upon correct implementation of that facility by the IMAP server. Some
poorly-written IMAP servers do not implement it correct.  Of course, there is no
problem with good-quality IMAP servers, such as UW, Cyrus, and Dovecot.

Mozilla does not do partial fetching.  It just downloads the entire message,
unconditionally, and then works on the local disk copy.  So if someone sends you
a 100MB spam, you have to wait while it s-l-o-w-l-y downloads it to your hard
drive.

-- Mark --

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