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.
Also, it would be helpful if you would follow the diagnostic steps for
pinning down mailbox corruption in the FAQ.
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