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From: Peter N. S. <ps...@al...> - 2006-03-02 02:58:58
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Folks,
After reading the FAQ, I'm hip to fetchmail's "neutrality" on whether an
incoming email has an attachment or not. So I'm hoping for some guidance
on where to look for the source of a recurring problem of randomly lost
or "damaged" pdf attachments. Typically (though not always), the pdfs
that come through unscathed are one-page, sent one per email. The lost
or damaged attachments tend to be larger pdf files and emails with
multiple attachments.
I've been running fetchmail on SuSE 10.0 on my laptop, and until today
(when I installed the latest version of fetchmail) I've been running
6.2.X. Rather than setting up my email clients (variously, Thunderbird,
Evolution, and Sylpheed-Claws) as POP3 to pull mail directly into the
client, I prefer to use fetchmail and procmail to pull email in from my
ISP and run it through spamassassin and clamav before dumping it into
/var/spool/mail/~. From my side of the screen, the mail comes into the
client fully processed; I don't have to wait for the email client to
chunk away looking for spam and virus "on screen" after I've hit the Get
New Messages button.
When I noticed the damaged attachments, I set up my clients for POP3 to
pull the mail directly from the ISP. Then I had the senders resend the
email. All the attachments arrived cleanly from ISP straight into email
client. So although my ISP is Comcast (I noted the Comcast caveats on
the FAQ page), Comcast does not seem to be the problem either. And I've
deactivated clamav, thinking it might not like the attachments for some
reason. But the attachments still come in damaged via the fetchmail et
al route.
So, if Comcast isn't the problem and fetchmail doesn't give a hoot if an
email bears an attachment or not, where else should I look?
Thanks for any help you can give...
With best regards,
Pete Spotts
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