[fetchmail-users] IMAP problem

[Alain C. <Ala...@th...>]

Hi.

I'm quite a newbie with Fetchmail, and I've read the FAQs before writing 
to this list.

This is my problem : I need to fetch mails from an IMAP account and direct 
them to the local SMTP port. Fetchmail seems the perfect tool for that.
However, the mails I fetch from the IMAP account are mainly composed with 
an attached file.

When using fetchmail, the downloaded mail contains only some text (an 
hypertext link to the file).
When using a mail reader (Outlook or Thunderbird), the mail seems to be 
complete (ie the file is downloaded).

To understand what happened, I ran telnet, and these are some 
transcriptions for the IMAP dialog :


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Talk-It:~ # telnet 192.168.1.2 143
Trying 192.168.1.2...
Connected to 192.168.1.2.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK Talk_It IMAP4rev1 v10.210 server ready

* BAD Null command
login 100 100
login BAD Command unrecognized/login please: 100
LOGIN 100 100
LOGIN BAD Command unrecognized/login please: 100
0001 LOGIN 100 100
0001 OK LOGIN completed
0002 list
0002 BAD Missing required argument to LIST
0002 list "*" "*"
* LIST (\NoInferiors) NIL INBOX
0002 OK LIST completed
0003 select INBOX
* NO Mailbox is open by another process, access is readonly
* 15 EXISTS
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1038355870] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 21] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Permanent flags
* 0 RECENT
0003 OK [READ-ONLY] SELECT completed
0004 fetch 1 body[text]
* 1 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {684}
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727
Content-Type: message/external-body; access-type=local-file;
        name="/htfs0/data/0/5/7/5/8/10517515.113";
        size=6472;
        xtype="audio/wav"

Content-Type: audio/wav
Content-ID: <0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary

--Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
        name="message.url"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="message.url"

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://192.168.1.2:8889/htfs0/data/0/5/7/5/8/10517515.113.wav

--Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727--

)
0004 OK FETCH completed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

The fetch body[text] command seems to be the one used by fetchmail and 
doesn't download the file.


Continuing with another fetch command :




-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
0005 fetch BODY[]
0005 BAD Missing required argument to FETCH
0005 fetch 1 BODY[]
* 1 FETCH (BODY[] {9885}
Received: via tmail-4.1(5) for uid202; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 03:51:15 +0100 
(MET)
From: <anonymous>
To: "Talk-It" <100@192.168.1.2>
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 03:51:14 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Call Answering Message from Ligne_1/820222180
MIME-Version: 1.0 (Voice 2.0)
Content-Type: multipart/voice-message; 
boundary="Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727
Content-Type: audio/wav; name="10517515x113.wav"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="10517515x113.wav"

UklGRjQZAABXQVZFZm10IBQAAAARAAEAQB8AANcPAAAAAQQAAgD5AWZhY3QEAAAAUTEAAGRh
dGEAGQAAuQEnAMuaMSWRzIoxJZG8m1EkkcyKMCWB25owNJHbmzE1gcyaMDWBvJwwNILrqjBE
gdqbMDSC26swJpLLqzE1gtqrIDWC25wgNAHqmhA0Acq7ODaByqs4NQLqqyBEgsm7IEQCyqwg
U4LKqyg1EturIEQCypwoQwLaqjlEAcqrKEUBuqwoNAPqmyhEAbqdGDSC2ps4NQHanCAzg+uq

(...)
MNCAgAQIwIAAAAAECAwIQIAAwIAABAjAgECAAMCAAAQIwIAABAjAgAAECAwIQIAM7P8BADAR
DAhAgAAMCAQIwIBACwkAQIDAgECAAAwIQMAACAAEDAMNCEjAAJM80ICABAjAgAAECMCAAAQI
DAhAgAAMCAQIwIAABAjAgAAECAwIQIDAgABAgADAgECAAAwIQIDAgECAAAwIBAjAgECAAAwI
QIAADAhAgAAMCECAAAwIBAgMCAQIwIBAgAAMCECAAAwIQIAADAhAgAAMCECAAAwIQIDAgECA
wIBAgAAMCECAAAwIQIAADAhAgAAMCAAECAAAwIAABAgADEiAAMCAQDvAgAATAZsJEwGbCRMB
mwkAEwGwmQATsZkAEwGwmTARAJsJMBEAmwkwEQCwmQATAXJmY3QEAAAAAQAAAA==

--Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
        name="message.url"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename="message.url"

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://192.168.1.2:8889/htfs0/data/0/5/7/5/8/10517515.113.wav

--Part.0001_32C9D122_000AF8A4.00E0BB00C727--

)
0005 OK FETCH completed
--------------------------------------------------------------------

The "fetch body[]" command works for what I have to do.

Well, at this time, I don't really what or who is wrong in my case. Does 
that mean that the IMAP server is not clean regarding protocol ?
Could someone help me to solve my problem.

Regards.

Alain CHOFARDET