Re: [fetchmail-users] Exchange server and attachment

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 4/28/06, Andres Baravalle <an...@ba...> wrote:
> Dear all,
> I'm fetching my email from an exchange server and I have regular
> problems with the attachments. Attachments are often corrupted.
>
> I have read the FAQs and apparently there are some known problems, and
> the suggested solution is to change email server. Which of course I
> can't because is not in my control.
>
> I was wondering:
> -if the FAQ entry is updated, and if there are still known problems
> -if it might be a configuration problem on my side.

It would help to see the .fetchmailrc and the output of "fetchmail -v
-v" showing a pull of a "corrupt" attachment.

Confirmation that a normal client (such as Thunderbird) can download a
mail without corruption of attachments would be useful (using the same
host as you're running fetchmail on, using the same config).

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