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<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/30 18:15:59 $
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<HR>
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
@@ -1317,10 +1317,14 @@ fetchmail. This can solve problems if your MUA interprets Received
continuations as body lines and doesn't parse any of the following
headers.<P>
-Workaround:
+Workaround is to use "mda" keyword or "-mda" switch:
<pre>
-mda "sed -e1,2D | formail | /usr/bin/procmail -d &lt;user&gt;"
+mda "sed -e '1s/^\t/Received: /' | formail | /usr/bin/procmail -d &lt;user&gt;"
</pre>
+Replace \t with exactly one tabulation character.
+
+You should also consider using "fetchall" option because Geocities' servers
+sometimes think that the first 45 messages have already been read.<P>
Fix: Get an email provider that doesn't suck. Geocities' pop-up adds
are lame, you should boycott them anyway.<P>
@@ -2240,7 +2244,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P>
<table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr>
<td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
<td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
-<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/29 00:11:13 $
+<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/30 18:15:59 $
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<P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>