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

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

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 07:47:31AM -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> Ed Wilts wrote:
> >
> >But Comcast *is* the problem.  I have this in my .fetchmailrc and it
> >works fine, with attachments.  
> >
> >Without the "fetchall", any attachments over 70k were mangled.
> >
> 
> Hmmm...this is interesting. It would imply that when email clients run 
> pop3 and pull the email in directly, they already have a fetchall-like 
> function active? 

Right.  fetchmail does things differently.  Comcast is broken but since
many clients simply work around broken servers, Comcast doesn't see a
need to fix anything.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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