On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I have a little trouble with fetchmail (hamm, 4.3.9-1), procmail (hamm, > 3.10.7-6) tearing mails apart. > I think I tracked it down, when I fetch a mail containing a line with "From" > in the text, procmail sorts everything before "From" in the correct folder, > everything after "From" (the line with "From" is lost) ends up in my bulk > folder.
First thanks for the hints I have received. Reading the fetchmail-FAQ I found this: X3. Messages containing "From" at start of line are being split. [...] If you can't replace the offending program, take a look at your sendmail.cf file. There will likely be a line something like Mlocal, P=/usr/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMShP, S=10, R=20/40, A=procmail -Y -d $u describing your local delivery agent. Try inserting the `E' option in the flags part (the F= string). This will make sendmail turn each dangerous start-of-line From into a >From, preventing programs further downstream from acting up. Now I wonder where I have my sendmail.cf file, I am using (the Debian standard) smail. Can't see nothing about procmail in /etc/smail, I wonder how my system knows that it should deliver mail with procmail. If I could add this option, I guess my problem would be solved. Ciao, Christian.
