Re: fetchmail adding a paren?
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:30:24PM +0200, Alban Browaeys wrote:
} Le Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:40:06 -0400, Gregory Seidman a ?crit :
}
} > For some reason, it appears that fetchmail is adding a paren to the end
} > of every mail message downloaded from one of my accounts. I am running
} > fetchmail from init, and I am using it for three different accounts,
} > each of which is delivering to a different user on my system. The
} > problem is only occurring with one of them.
} >
} > Of the three, that is the only one using IMAP (over SSL). The other two
} > are POP3. I've checked on the IMAP server before downloading, and there
} > is no paren; it only appears after passing through fetchmail (and
} > exim). Does anyone have any idea what might be going on, or how to fix
} > it?
}
} This looks like a fetchmail bug. Please report to the Bug tracking
} System: $ reportbug fetchmail
}
} This issue must be deep in the fetchmail code. The maintainer (which will
} forward it to upstream if needed) is the best to help about this. Though
} feel free to ask here too. Some fellow may have find a tip to work around
} this.
Upon further investigation, this appears to be coming from the IMAP server,
but it's possible that fetchmail should know to ignore it. I don't know if
this is common to other IMAP servers, and I don't know what software is
actually driving the IMAP server in question, but the extra paren is
present in both the fetchmail debug log (run from fetchmailconf) and when
telnetting to the server directly (using telnet-ssl). I tested the server
with mutt and Thunderbird, though, and they did not show the paren at all.
Is this a bug with the server that I should report to my email provider, or
is this a bug with fetchmail for not expecting it/ignoring it? My guess is
that it is a bug in fetchmail, since my courier-imap server also appends
the paren in the same way. That said, I'm baffled that it doesn't seem to
have been reported before.
} Regards
} Alban
--Greg
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