Message contains bare newlines

Support knowledgebase (rsimai_imap_bare_newlines)
Applies to

eMail Server: Version 2

Symptom

Some mails are not delivered. They stick in the mailqueue as deferred

In /var/log/mail you may find entries like this:

MAILSERVER postfix/pipe[6236]: 5E263F0BC: to=<USER@DOMAIN.de>, relay=procmail, delay=69030, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: procmail: Couldn't read "/etc/imap/procmail/USER" USER: Message contains bare newlines _ procmail: Program failure (65) of "/usr/cyrus/bin/deliver" )

Cause

These mails are containing an attachment, which has not been composed according to the RFC
Especially Outlook is known as causer for this.

Solution

Either you change to another external mail client or you omit to send this kind of attachments using this mail client

or

you have to download the following package from our ftp server and save it at /tmp

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/products/emailserver/2.0/cyrus-1.6.24-80.i386.rpm

To install it type:

rpm -Uhv /tmp/cyrus-1.6.24-80.i386.rpm

Within the use of this package, the verification of "bare newlines" is omitted and also not RFC conforming mails will be delivered.
To send collected and deferred mails immediately you may use the command postfix flush.

Attention: The usage of this package happens on your own risk! The SuSE installation support doesn´t offer you help if problems concerning this modification appear.
Keywords: IMAP, EMAILSERVER, MAILQ, BARE, NEWLINES, ATTACHMENT, OUTLOOK

Categories: SuSE Linux IMAP Server

SDB-rsimai_imap_bare_newlines, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 20. Aug 2001
SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 10. Okt 2001 by rsimai (sdb_gen 1.40.0)