[fetchmail-devel] Reports of mail loss caused by fetchmail (6.2.5) on comp.mail.imap

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

Anybody who's still working on code may want to look at the following
thread on comp.mail.imap (http://tinyurl.com/akl58 - links to
groups.google.com).  Subject for the paranoid is "lost mail with
fetchmail and cyrus" :)

The main problem seems to be fetchmail inserting a space after FROM:
when the sender is <>, causing Cyrus IMAP to barf.  However the email
is then deleted by fetchmail:

fetchmail: LMTP> MAIL FROM: <> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=5481
fetchmail: LMTP< 501 5.5.4 Syntax error in parameters
fetchmail: LMTP error: 501 5.5.4 Syntax error in parameters
fetchmail: LMTP> RSET
fetchmail: LMTP< 250 2.0.0 ok
... flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 1 has been deleted. 

I've advised the posters to contact this list with as much detail as
they can, but thought I'd pass this on just in case they don't.

I have 6.2.5 installed on a system with Cyrus IMAP 2.2.12 installed
and can test things out if others don't have access.

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