Re: [fetchmail-users] After reading the FAQ, a question about lost/mangled attachments

[Ed W. <ew...@ew...>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:58:52PM -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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?

But Comcast *is* the problem.  I have this in my .fetchmailrc and it
works fine, with attachments.  

poll mail.comcast.net
        proto POP3
        user 'ewilts'
        password 'noneofyourbusiness!'
        fetchall

Without the "fetchall", any attachments over 70k were mangled.

-- 
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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