On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:36:35 +0100 (CET) "Christian T. Steigies" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. No digest, dosemu-digest is coming through unharmed. > > 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 :-) What is a buggy old email implemantation? Are you talking about fetchmail/procmail or the mail programm the sender is using? Most of the mails which are torn apart are on the various debian lists, just because of the high volume I guess. I have seen sometimes that a mail containing a From line is changed to "> From", who should change the mail ike this? fetchmail? procmail? Or the sun where the mail is delivered originally? When I read the mail on the sun (Im no longer filtering there) everything is ok, its only torn on the way from the sun to my debian machine.
Ciao, Christian.
