On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:57 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >---- > >to my knowledge, fetchmail doesn't remove any headers at all. > > Procmail may be doing it or your MTA, depending upon how you are > > handling it. > > > Humm, AFAIK, fetchmail gets it from vz, writing it > to /var/spool/mail/gene ---- perhaps you are using a customized configuration or perhaps you don't know what you are talking about...I don't know.
man fetchmail...the first sentence... 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. your local machine's delivery system is AFAIK, your MTA. I am guessing that you have kmail retrive it either directly from /var/spool/mail/gene or using a pop3 or IMAP (I hope) connection. ---- > and kmail takes it from there. And I'm just using what the servers > support, which for vz is 99.9% of zip, plain text for everything. > > Gmail's pop3 server at least uses ssl encryption for everything. OTOH, > I have my gmail prefs set to fwd it to vz, which is probably not the > 'schmardtest' thing to do. I should cancel that, and let fetchmail > get it direct. > > >after a few years of using fetchmail with 'proto imap' or 'proto > >auto' (which used imap protocol), I ended up switching to 'proto > > pop3' because the email 'accepted' by my isp included things like > > NUL characters in the headers which caused fetchmail to gag on the > > mail. When I switched to 'proto pop3' - the fetchmail politely > > handed the email off to my MTA (postfix) and expunged it from my ISP > > and thus, it ended up being a bit tidier. YMMV > > Well, my reasons for using fetchmail is that its configuration is > pretty brain dead simple. And kmail has this habit of forgetting to > hit the network & fetch the mail itself if its config isn't refreshed > about 2x a week. Your basic old dogs (me at 71) and new tricks > story... ---- I don't use kmail very often and when I do, it's via IMAP from my local server and it seems to work without fail. In fact, if Kmail wasn't reliable in retrieving email via POP3 or IMAP day in / day out, it would be fixed as those protocols are old enough, stable enough that I would expect any end user mail program to be sufficient to retrieve mail without resetting configurations at all. Now - if I recall correctly, you use stuff as root which is definitely not the recommended methodology and can be problematic with things like KDE. I don't do root logins. Craig
