[fetchmail-devel] [Bug #17272] Fetchmail does not fetch some Web.DE mails

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Bug #17272, was updated on 2010-Jun-17 04:17
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: fetchmail
Category: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Bug Group: None
Priority: 5
Submitted by: bjoernv
Assigned to : none
Summary: Fetchmail does not fetch some Web.DE mails

Details: Fetchmail is not able to fetch some automatically generated Web.DE mails.

Especially the so called "POP3 Reports" could not be fetched. These mails where generated by the German Freemail provider Web.DE if the user has some suspect mails in his folders which where not delivered by POP3. 

After some debugging I found, that these mails contain a header with some small problems. First the line "This is a multi-part message in MIME format." is part of the header. Second the header and the body is not divided by a single new line, but by a Space character followed by a new line. 

Fetchmails output and a Sample mail is appended. 

The problem was tested with Fetchmail 6.3.11 from openSUSE 11.2 and with the current GIT version.

The mails from Web.DE are badly formatted. Anyway I think, that Fetchmail should be more tolerant with these mails. Normal MUAs like Seamonkey and Thunderbird can deal with the Web.DE mails. 

For detailed info, follow this link:
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=17272&group_id=1824