282525 - Problem moving local folders to imap server: Message contains bare newlines.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 301010

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Victor Cisneros]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I am attempting to migrate users from Eudora 5.x/6.x (POP-local) to the most
current version of Thunderbird. Once users are migrated, their local folders are
copied over to the IMAP server. Unfortunately, there is always one pesky message
that ruins the entire migration process with the following alert: "The command
did not succeed. The mail server responded: Message contains bare newlines."
This has been happening since we started looking into deploying Thunderbird
version 0.7.3 until the current 20050215 trunk builds.

Only recently have I been able to find a workaround to the problem by opening
each individual mailbox file inside the DOS command line editor, edit.com,
saving, then closing. This would automatically convert all bare LFs to CRLF.
This can get tedious, however. Especially if each user has over a dozen mailbox
folders. Also, there is a file size limitation on edit.com of about 5MB.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Thunderbird and create a new IMAP account.
2. Import messages from Eudora (messages are then stored under Local Folders -->
Eudora Mail).
3. Drag and drop each local folder to the IMAP server.

Actual Results:  
Alert: "The command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Message contains
bare newlines."

Expected Results:  
Copy each mail folder successfully into the IMAP server without error.

Workaround provided under Details.

Comment 1

[Maxime Delorme]

same as bug 301010
I've got also the same bug .
tested on linux 
width thunderbird 1.0.6 (20050716) 
width thunderbird version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050909)
width thunderbird version 1.6a1 (20050909)

I think it's a major bug, because it's very annoying when you want to use kolab
server with thunderbird