I think I understand what your problem is, but I hope someone else can explain
it better than me.
I use fetchmail as my pop3 client. When I was first trying to set it up, I
found that I was getting one big message, instead of getting lots of
properly sized messages. The solution for me was to use the following
.fetchmailrc:
poll world.std.com
protocol pop3
username steveo
is steveo
password fatchance
mda procmail
The key was the mda line which ran me through procmail. My
.procmailrc used formail:
:0
| formail >> /var/spool/mail/steveo
It was the formail that broke the messages up.
Since that time, I successfully used a program called
install-sendmail which asks a few rude questions and then emits a few
sendmail configuration files as well as a .fetchmailrc.
Now my .fetchmailrc no longer uses procmail as the mda, but I don't
know why it's no longer needed. My new .fetchmail:
poll world.std.com
proto pop3
user steveo with pass fatchance is steveo
here forcecr smtpaddress localhost
Can someone explain why I needed formail before but now I don't?
The plot thickens!
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Chris Dowling wrote:
=>Hey folks.
=>
=>I'm currently using netscape as my mail reader.
=>
=>I want to change this to use pine. The problem is that when I load up a
=>mail file that came from netscape in pine a lot of messages are dropped
=>of, or get bundled into one (huge) message. I will admit that the files
=>in question are quite large.
=>
=>Anyhoo: has anyone else come accross this problem? does anyone know
=>what's causing it? does anyone know how to fix it?
=>
=>Here's my current hypothesis: pine has a header message at the top of
=>the mail file. if it is not there then it will insert it. I believe that
=>this "message" is an idex of sorts. when I just use the file sraight
=>from netscape, pine has troubles indexing the file and screws up the
=>index? I don't really know. maybe there's some arbtrary limit on the
=>file size?
=>
=>Any help is appreciated.
=>
=>Regards,
=>Chris Dowling.
=>
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