Re: Re(2): POP3 in Debian

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:49:24AM -0800, peasthope@xxxxxxx wrote:
* From: Osamu Aoki <osamu@xxxxxxxxxx>
* Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:10:34 +0900
Both getmail4 and fetchmail can handle this task well ...

According to the Wikipedia, fetchmail can not deliver to mbox.

Well.... by itself ... yes you are right.

| fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches
| mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client)
| machine's delivery system. You can then handle the retrieved mail using
| normal mail user agents such as mutt(1), elm(1) or Mail(1).

Its all about fetching. You need another program to deliver to ... like
procmail/maildrop/...

Are you running that qpopper yourself?

Not now. It was installed years ago before I learned
to simplify configuration.

Or connect to remote POP3 site with telnet.

That explained the problem in a few minutes. The MUA
is putting two blanks between LIST and 1. The Zimbra
POP3 server is accepting one blank and not two. My
log

You mean your log viewing environment.

is a variable pitch font and I failed to notice the
two blanks. Should have noticed in the Courier font
emessage but failed again. The ISP must have changed
the POP server last weekend. No public notice and
"technical support" staff were unaware. My telnet
session follows in case anyone is interested.

Good for you. The real question is who's bus is this.

If this is bug on Debian package which is a bit too tight than what RFC
allows, please file bug report on Debian. If this is non-RFC complient
bug, maybe complain to ISP or Zimba POP3 server developer.

...
Now that I understand, the MUA can be changed to send just
one blank and interact with the ISP POP3 directly again.

I think your usage of MUA is not a typical one.

MUA is mutt, thunderbird, ... not POP3 server.




Osamu


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