[ILUG] fetchmail oddity

From: Ray Kelly (ray at domain skynet.ie)
Date: Tue 24 Sep 2002 - 13:38:02 IST


Ladies & gents

I'm having a wee little prob with fetchmail here which I can't
figure out & the altar of google hasn't answered my prayers either.
I'm running it as a std user to dump remote mail into spool
on a lan box where I want to get at it myself

What happens is
rom user at domain wherever.tld Tue Sep 24 12:46:45 2002
or similar is addeded to the top of each mail & as a result
$MAILCLIENT doesn't recognise a valid mbox & barfs
changing rom to From: seems to make a difference but that's something I'd
rather not have to do :)

The fetchmailrc is as below
poll pop3server
        proto pop3
        user "user"
        pass "password"
        keep
        fetchall

the (client) machine itself is is RH 7.2 box with
fetchmail-5.9.0-11 being installed it also has
postfix-1.1.11 there too though I suspect that this & procmail (3.21)
aren't the problem!

does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening or more
importantly, how to make it go away!

ta muchie
        Ray ...



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