<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> [fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments </TITLE> <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:fetchmail-users%40lists.berlios.de?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Bfetchmail-users%5D%20After%20reading%20the%20FAQ%2C%20a%20question%20about%0A%09lost/mangled%20attachments&In-Reply-To=%3C1141822356.516.4.camel%40linux.site%3E"> <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> <style type="text/css"> pre { white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-2.1, curent FF, Opera, Safari */ } </style> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000306.html"> <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000309.html"> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <H1>[fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments</H1> <B>Peter N. Spotts</B> <A HREF="mailto:fetchmail-users%40lists.berlios.de?Subject=Re%3A%20%5Bfetchmail-users%5D%20After%20reading%20the%20FAQ%2C%20a%20question%20about%0A%09lost/mangled%20attachments&In-Reply-To=%3C1141822356.516.4.camel%40linux.site%3E" TITLE="[fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments">pspotts at alum.mit.edu </A><BR> <I>Wed Mar 8 13:52:36 CET 2006</I> <P><UL> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000306.html">[fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000309.html">[fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#308">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#308">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#308">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#308">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <HR> <!--beginarticle--> <PRE>On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 19:31 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: ><i> "Peter N. Spotts" <<A HREF="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-users">pspotts at alum.mit.edu</A>> writes: </I>><i> </I>><i> > I've been running fetchmail on SuSE 10.0 on my laptop, and until today </I>><i> > (when I installed the latest version of fetchmail) I've been running </I>><i> > 6.2.X. </I>><i> </I>><i> [...] </I>><i> </I>><i> > So although my ISP is Comcast (I noted the Comcast caveats on </I>><i> > the FAQ page), Comcast does not seem to be the problem either. </I>><i> </I>><i> That would be news. </I>><i> </I>><i> fetchmail, beginning with version 6.3.2, recognizes Comcast's broken </I>><i> servers ("Maillennium POP3/PROXY server") and disables the problematic </I>><i> use of the TOP command and uses RETR instead - so updating to 6.3.2 </I>><i> should have fixed all known Comcast problems. </I>><i> </I>><i> -- </I>><i> Matthias Andree </I> Matthias, My apologies for the tardy reply. I'll remove the fetchall command from my rc file and see how things work. I should have said earlier that I had just updated to 6.3.2 that morning but hadn't tried it yet...I just had this urge to write something after several weeks of frustration! ;-) With best regards, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: <A HREF="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-users">pspotts at alum.mit.edu</A> | www.csmonitor.com Amateur-radio call - KC1JB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "The knack of flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss." -- Douglas Adams </PRE> <!--endarticle--> <HR> <P><UL> <!--threads--> <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000306.html">[fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments </A></li> <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000309.html">[fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments </A></li> <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> <a href="date.html#308">[ date ]</a> <a href="thread.html#308">[ thread ]</a> <a href="subject.html#308">[ subject ]</a> <a href="author.html#308">[ author ]</a> </LI> </UL> <hr> <a href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-users">More information about the fetchmail-users mailing list</a><br> </body></html>