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Re: [fetchmail]fetchmail vs Maillenium; mail truncated to 80K

2004-04-24 10:34:19
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Rob Funk wrote:
"fetchall" forces fetchmail to use RETR instead of TOP.  The FAQ mentions
it in a few places, just not in the Comcast entry.

Furthermore, since I'm not connected to Comcast, I would not have known
to look at the Comcast entry of the FAQ.

There should be a FAQ entry that mentions Maillenium, since it seems to
be propagating beyond Comcast; ideally in the "how do I make fetchmail
work with a particular server" section.

As far as I can tell from looking around the net, Maillenium has this
particular "feature" to protect Outlook Express from eating itself. I
saw some traffic somewhere wherein Comcast claimed that the 80K
truncation was to protect Outlook Express from a vulnerability that was
tickled by sending "much more than 64K" in response to a TOP command. I
don't have a URL handy, sorry.
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Roger Ivie
rivie(_at_)ridgenet(_dot_)net
http://anachronda.webhop.org/
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