Hi Eric,
Thanks for your reply. Todd Sabin sent a reply which sounds like
it is an explanation - he sent it to "fetchmail-friends" also, so you will
probably have seen it. If not, I can forward it to you. I've checked out
your FAQ - excellent, thank you. Nothing there quite matches, and I am
not sure what server my ISP is using (NT I think). I'm trying POP3 now,
to see if that makes a difference. Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Rob Hurle
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:44:34 -0400
From: Eric S. Raymond <esr(_at_)thyrsus(_dot_)com>
To: Rob Hurle <rob(_at_)coombs(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au>
Cc: fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [fetchmail]A little ) problem
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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"...quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est."
[...a sword never kills anybody; it's a tool in the killer's hand.]
-- (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD),
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