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Re: fetchmail still corrupts files ?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: RE: fetchmail still corrupts files ?


> > I cannot confirm that fetchmail is guilty.
> > I use fetchmail to retrieve all my mails and feed them to our SMTP
> > server.  Then I fetch them from the local POP3 server with my windows
> > client.  No mails with attachments are corrupted!
> > So just fetching with fetchmail seems to work ( works for me(tm) )
> >
> > It seems that another program in the toolchain is
> > causing that damage.  Mutt?  Procmail?
> >
>
> It's certainly possible that mutt is the guilty party, as it's rather
> aggregiously Unix-text-files-only-please oriented.  Do things work if you
> configure mutt to go directly to your POP3 server?  Or if you change the
inbox
> format to maildir?
>
> I'm a changelog away from updating mutt to 1.3.28; I could send you the
new .exe
> if you'd like to try it and see if it makes any difference (and I'd
appreciate
> the additional testing).  Let me know.
>
> --
> Gary R. Van Sickle
> Brewer.  Patriot.
>
>
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