Rob Hurle <rob(_at_)coombs(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au>:
Sorry to bother you, I am not on the list, so I would appreciate copies of
replies sent to me directly.
I am running FreeBSD as a gateway to an ISP. The FreeBSD system
picks up mail and holds it for the other systems on the local LAN, and I
use fetchmail to pick up mail (2 addresses). There is a peculiarity in
that mail which has a mime boundary comes over with an extraneous
")" character appended to the last boundary. I can set up some perl
script to fix this, but why does it happen? My fetchmailrc file is very
standard:
# Fetchmail config file (see fetchmail(1))
# Fetchmail rc file. Note, this fetchmail file lives in
# /etc/mail, and /etc/rc.local uses it to start up fetchmail(1)
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
#set syslog
# NOTE: The mailserver IP is set in named.conf
poll mailserver.connect-a.com.au
user "rob" password "****" is "rob" here
mda "/usr/libexec/mail.local %T"
user "clare" password "****" is "clare" here
mda "/usr/libexec/mail.local %T"
I've checked this out by using `mail.local` without fetchmail, and the ")"
is not appended in that case. Other mail collection agents get the mail
from the ISP without the ")" - it's only fetchmail that shows this
peculiar behaviour. Any ideas welcome. Thanks for any help.
Can you send me before and after copies of a message exhibiting this
behavior?
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