164447 - Upon downloading mail from an IMAP server to a local folder, the mail file contains an extra line break at the end of each message.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Database, defect)

Description

[Oneweb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

The mail file contains a single extra linebreak at the end of each
message/before the "From" - line. This is not the case in Messenger4.78, in
which there are no linebreaks added.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy at least 3 messages from an IMAP account to a local folder in Mozilla Mail
2. Do the same in Netscape Messenger
3. Compare the results.
Actual Results:  
There was a difference between the files created by Netcape and Mozilla Mail

Expected Results:  
Not added extra lines/linebreaks

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

the extra linebreak doesn't affect anything, right? marking wontfix. There's no
reason that we should do exactly what 4.x does.

Comment 2

[Oneweb]

just figured that since Mozilla was standards compliant, it might as well be 
completely so :)

"MESSAGE FORMAT
     A message encoded in mbox format begins with a  From_  line,
     continues  with a series of non-From_ lines, and ends with a
     blank line."

Also, i didn't mean to sound like a kid screamin (but 4.x does it!!!) :p, it was 
just a comparison to verify that it wasn't the mail server adding the extra 
line.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

well, we do end with a blank line :-) this is a bit of a low priority at the moment.

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

no need to change this since it makes no difference