reassign 691469 postfix retitle 691469 postifx apprently uses mboxo format, which irrecoverably corrupts mail notforwarded 691469 stop
Hi. Just found out[0] by help[1] of guys a the fetchmail-users list, that it's not fetchmail, who is the bad guy, but rather postfix (to which fetchmail hands the mail over locally). I checked the whole problem then with just postfix, submitting the testmail locally with a local recipient, and the mail was stored corrupted in /var/spool/mail/<user> So I guess it's the local(8) delivery daemon, that's the evil friend here and writes mail in the broken mboxo format. Apart from that, all what I wrote in the initial upstream bug[2], applies now to postfix. As well as what I suggest (message #5 in this Debian bug report) we in Debian could/should do, until upstream takes any action (or not). I wouldn't expect that something happens before wheezy there (if at all),... so I think handling this bug for now, is to put appropriate warnings in place, as well as warn users that all their old mail delivered with local(8) to mbox, may be corrupted. Nico has set this issue to critical, I fully agree with, even though many people attach a separate MDA to postfix, it's valid to use it's own LDA, and when that writes out in the broken mboxo format (which irrecoverably corrupts mail), we have some severe problem. Cheers, Chris. [0] https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2012-October/003263.html [1] https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2012-October/003262.html [2] https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/fetchmail-users/2012-October/003258.html
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