On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:00:45PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >The reason? My incoming mail goes through an MS-Exchange server, > >and it strips out the signature part and makes a mess of the mail > >header. There's no > > > >* ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > >or > >* ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >left to filter on. > > > >MS-Exchange sucks.
What I've seen it do is this: you send a multipart/signed mime message through an exchange server, and it will munch up half the message headers, all the mime headers, the signature part and inline the signed text part, with a new mime declaration, introducing windows codepage 1251. I could never figure out what went wrong, because when I sent the exchange competence center people an smtp + pop3 dump illustrating the mangling, they were completely baffled about the possibility of sending email with telnet, so I gave up. > Only MUA I tolerate with MS-Sexchange is telnet blah 110... retr and > linux's terminal paging is perfect for me :) Umm, actually it doesn't or didn't. Fetchmail had to be patched to allow incorrect pop3 "list" responses from a certain vendor's mail server, because it reported not the actual message size, but the size of the compressed entry in the mail database. It is also explained in the fetchmail FAQ. When the company where this happened, tried to get some of the support they were paying (very big time) for, there was no answer. So two bsd gurus who were affected by this debugged it a bit and even found the likely cause of the problem sent a patch to the fetchmail bazaar. Shortly after the patched version of fetchmail hit the net, the submitters of the patch were contacted by an exchange developer. After some pounding with rfc's, he agreed that it was a bug and gave a magic registry hack to fix exchange, ie. one has to add a key called "pop3 compatibility" to be compliant with the rfc's. Since knowing about this, it has never been a doubt to me that open source has better support than closed source, even if that's what you're actually using. Cheers, Joost
