OK, Understood. Thanks for the explanation. Martin
On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 23:30 +0000, RW wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:35:10 +0000 > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 22:19 +0000, RW wrote: > > > > > > > > If you are using getmail/fetchmail it commonly just works. SA has > > > explicit support for fetchmail, and getmail headers are > > > unparseable. > > > Either way there is typically a chain of private and localhost IP > > > addresses up to the MX server. > > > > > Yes, that's been my experience with both fetchmail and getmail. I > > used > > to use fetchmail until its habit of 'accidentally' leaving mail its > > read but forgotten to delete in the source mailbox. Forever. > > Eventually this annoyed me enough make the switch to getmail, which > > hasn't caused me any problems at all. > > > > I haven't noticed any problems arising from getmail's 'unparseable > > headers': in fact I hadn't noticed that they weren't being > > processed. > > Which brings me to the question I wanted to raised in this > > (renamed) > > thread: > > > > What would we gain if getmail generated headers were parsed? > > The unparseable header breaks ALL_TRUSTED, but that doesn't really > matter for a retriever. I don't recall any other practical > difference. > > Making SA parse the header normally is a really bad idea because the > public IP address of the POP/IMAP server will break the chain of > trust, requiring trusted_network to be set explicitly. > > The fetchmail support causes the received header parsing to restart > on the next header down. > > > > > IOW, should I raise a bug or would I just be wasting my and other > > peoples, time? If it would not be a waste of time, should the bug > > be > > raised against getmail or SA? > > There is a bug report with a patch to make the fetchmail support > generic to all POP/IMAP, but it's not been committed. > > It doesn't make much difference for getmail. There might possibly be > other retriever software that could benefit, although they're likely > to be unparseble like getmail.
