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Re: [fetchmail]comcast.net and attachments - workaround

2006-01-03 06:30:56
Ed Wilts wrote:

I have found a workaround to this issue that may work for some people -
it works for me.  I added fetchall to my .fetchmailrc and this works
around the problem.  Interactively, fetchmail -a also works.

The reason for that is that fetchmail uses TOP by default (stupid, IMHO,
but ESR insisted on this for some kind of poor man's IMAP), but RETR when
fetchall is set. And as the FAQ says:

   Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast.net server...but the Maillennium
   POP3 server comcat uses seems to have an 80K limit on the length of
   downloaded messages if you use POP3 TOP to retrieve. [...]



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