It seems that this is not a problem that can be solved by using a new
release. It stems from bad invocations of sendmail from the user's
.fetchmailrc file, based on bad advice in the man page.
Thus, the only way to fix the problem is to advise affected users
to add a "-i" option to sendmail in their .fetchmailrc.
As noted in
http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/fetchmail-friends/2002-April/001973.html
I was still running across this problem in 5.9.11. I sent in a
patch to the man page for it, but by mistake I sent it to
fetchmail-friends-admin rather than fetchmail-friends.
I see that the man page in 5.9.12 has the recommended change - thanks.
I suggest the addition of a prominant notice in the release notes,
since affected users have to do something besides just installing:
If your .fetchmailrc file invokes sendmail, it should do
so with the "-i" option. Otherwise fetchmail can get stuck
on messages that contain "." on a line by itself.
The fetchmail man page has been updated to reflect this.
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett <neal(_at_)bcn(_dot_)boulder(_dot_)co(_dot_)us>
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 07:46:18AM -0400, Eric S Raymond wrote:
Neal McBurnett <neal(_at_)bcn(_dot_)boulder(_dot_)co(_dot_)us>:
It seems like somewhere along the line the "." is not being
escaped properly, as I believe it needs to be for SMTP.
The Solaris IMAP server uses that Sun-specific Content-Length: 8835
stuff, so I suppose that somewhere along the line one of the programs
may think that the "." doesn't have to be escaped.
Does anyone know where the problem lies, and if it has been or can be
fixed?
I think this may have been fixed in 5.9.8. I'm going to issue 5.9.12
shortly; please test.
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