Re: fetchmail/procmail tears mail apart
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:36:35 +0100 (CET) "Christian T. Steigies"
<cts@ap031.experimentalphysik.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
> I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail
> (hamm, 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. I think I tracked it down,
> when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" in the text,
> procmail sorts everything before "From" in the correct folder,
> everything after "From" (the line with "From" is lost) ends up in my
> bulk folder.
This is due to a bug in early email implementations or caused by an
attempt to expand a digest.
> Is this a bug or a feature? Is there an easy solution to fix this,
> some commandline switch or config change for fetchmail or procmail?
Unless the mail(s) in question were close to the minimal digest
format, I'd say it is a bug. Those buggy old email implementations
shouldn't be around anymore :-)
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Olaf Meeuwissen Ph.D. student, Shinshu University, Japan
olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp Information Management Systems Laboratory
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