Re: fetchmail

From: Jacob Heider (lord-jacob_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 04:46:02 GMT

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:24:53 -0500, JellyKing wrote:

> I've been using fetchmail for over 2 years now and have had a little issue
> with it recently. Although I have not modified the .fetchmailrc file or
> changed Internet providers, fetchmail has recently started appending email
> header information into the body the email messages that it retrieved from
> my pop mail server. I have sucessfully download my email from the pop
> server using outlook express and it doesn't append any header information
> to the body of the emails.
>
> Has anyone ever exprienced this extra header information showing up after
> downloading from fetchmail. I also use pine to read the email and can
> also use outlook epxress to look at downloaded email. In both cases, that
> crazy header information ends up in the body of the email if fetchmail is
> used to download the information and pine is used to retrieve the email
> from the system.
>
> There is one thing that I don't understand to begin with. After I use
> fetchmail to download email, I have to use pine to retrieve the email.
> Although this works fine for me, I have never taken the time to understand
> this one step between fetchmail and pine.
>
> If anyone can shed light on this email problem, I would welcome your
> input.
>
> -JK

This might sound like a stupid question, but you didn't hit 'h' in pine,
did you? This allows you to view the full header info. If not, which
headers are getting replicated in the body. What does your fetchmailrc say
(don't forget to remove your passwords before posting).

Jacob

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