Re: [fetchmail-users] [SOLVED] fetchmail can't talk to dovecot

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

"M. Fioretti" <mfi...@mc...> writes:

> Anyway: after a few trials with mutt, which worked just fine, I had an
> inspiration (for lack of a better word): I opened fetchmailrc,
> canceled ALL the fetchmail "recipe" for downloading the messages and
> rewrote it from scratch, just as it was before. After that, believe it
> or not, everything worked.
>
> The only way I can explain this is that some weird, non printing
> character got mixed in the password and /or username strings someway.

Perhaps. Some "cat" implementations (such as GNU) support options to
print nonprinting characters escaped, else "od -An -tc .fetchmailrc"
should reveal control characters, and less can also uncover control
characters.

Oh the wonders of escape sequences and non-printing characters...

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Matthias Andree