Re: [fetchmail-devel] Fetchmail IMAP with FETCH x RFC822

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

On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Georges-Etienne Legendre <le...@le...> writes:
> 
> > When fetchmail fetch a message, it does this in 2 steps:
> >
> > 1) . FETCH x RFC822.HEADER
> > 2) . FETCH x BODY.PEEK[TEXT]
> >
> > However, there is a problem with the Gmail IMAP implementation. Gmail IMAP doesn't return a valid header if there is an encoded field in the header.
> > Instead, we have to use to get the whole mail in only one fetch: 
> >
> > 1) . FETCH x RFC822
> >
> > The problem is documented here:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-POP-and-IMAP-en/browse_thread/thread/06b49fde4a8dde08/d283b040984e4054
> >
> > Is there a way to tell to fetchmail to use the second approach?
> 
> Sorry, fetchmail cannot do this at the moment.
> 
> Is there a way to tell Google not to violate the protocol?  Standards
> are there for a purpose... please ask Google support to fix the server
> software.

After reviewing the situation, I've decided to amend to the FAQ:
<http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#I9>

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Matthias Andree