Re: [fetchmail-devel] fetchmail 6.3.15-beta1 beta release with "bad-header pass" feature

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

Am 25.02.2010 17:41, schrieb grarpamp:
> Ok. Thank you two for the definition and explanation.
> As my current use is only to fetch to disk [Maildir of course with procmail,
> perhaps maildrop? in the future]

Maildrop is definitely recommended. Procmail has been unmaintained since 2001
and is very hard to configure in a way such that it behaves predictably.

> for use with mutt, and even though I
> may mutt-reply from time to time from the Maildir, I think receipt of such
> bad messages is what I want, rather than miss one. I can always edit the
> bad messages in the Maildir. I did not know fetchmail would not
> receive messages/headers the server thought were valid. Thanks for
> this new feature :)
> 
> PS: I use of invisible mode for years, sometimes I forward things
> and in general prefer headers to be pristine as if they never passed
> through some middle parts of my systems.

Forwarding anything beyond the usually displayed From/To/Cc/Date/Subject headers
is somewhat dangerous to privacy, and "invisible" mode doesn't change those. :)

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Matthias Andree