From anil@lcgindia.com Thu Mar 13 14:41:12 2003
From: anil@lcgindia.com
To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in
Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] help regarding fetchmail
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:46:53 +0000
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Thanks for the suggestion. I got the solution. The attachment is getting=20
stripped when i download the mails using IMAP, but not using POP3. STRANGE!!

Anil

Quoting Rishi Gangoly <rishi(a)theargoncompany.com>:

> On Thursday 13 March 2003 1:17 pm, you wrote:
> > Dear Luggers,
> > i am downloading the mails from a mail server on a linux box using
> > fetchmail. the linux box also runs sendmail. but the attachment doesn't
> get
> > downloaded. plz look at the last line in logs which says
> > fetchmail: message 1 was not the expected length (992 actual !=3D 149192
> > expected) is it a mime problem?
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> > fetchmail: message 1 was not the expected length (992 actual !=3D 149192
> > expected)
> >
> >
> > Anil Mare
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> What version of fetchmail do you use? A better place to post the message=20
> would be the fetchmail list.
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> However, I'd suggest that you upgrade to the newer version of fetchmail. The
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> reason being the guys on the fetchmail list will tell you to do so before=20
> they look into it. See note below for latest announcement on fetchmail=20
> release and website info.
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> Regards
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> Rishi
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> Note! =C2=A0The fetchmail website has MOVED!
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> The 6.2.2 release of fetchmail is now available at the usual locations,
> including <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail>.
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> The source archive is available at:
> <URL:http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-6.2.2.tar.gz>
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> Here are the release notes:
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> fetchmail-6.2.2 (Fri Feb 28 21:34:26 EST 2003), 22345 lines:
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> * Sunil Shetye's patch to improve behavior in empty messages.
> * Conform to RFC2595; reissue capability probes after successful=20
> =C2=A0 STARTTLS negotiation.
> * Sunil's patch to make handling of failed STARTTLS more graceful.
> * Sunil's JF2 fix patch for .fetchmailrc security fix.
> * Christophe GIAUME <christophe(a)giaume.com> finished the implementation
> =C2=A0 of RFC2177 IDLE.
> * Jason Tishler's fix patch for Cygwin.
> * Support ssh-style authentication in POP3
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> There are 554 people on fetchmail-friends and 727 on fetchmail-announce.
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> Cleanup and bugfix release. =C2=A0Matthias Andree is going to try to do som=
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> audacious things with the build system next.
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> By popular demand, diffs from the previous release have been omitted.
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=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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> There's a truism that the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions.
> The corollary is that evil is best known not by its motives but by its
> *methods*.
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> _______________________________________________
> Fetchmail-announce mailing list
> Fetchmail-announce(a)lists.ccil.org
> http://lists.ccil.org/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-announce
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Anil Mare
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