Re: Transient fetchmail corruption problem under Windows 2000

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at nyckelpiga dot de>]

Am 7 Aug 2001, um 16:10 hat Jason Tishler geschrieben:

> Gerrit,
> 
> [This message was received corrupted...  I have attached it for
> perusal by the curious.]

Holla, this attached message looks really like garbage.

> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 09:26:03PM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > What are the types of the binary attachments?
> 
> Actually, after further investigation it appears that even plain text
> attachments are affected too.
> 
> > Is it various or are there only some files corrupted or are all
> > attachment
>             ^^
> 
> Note the null character above, this is part of the corruption.
> 
> If I send the same message (which includes an attachment) to myself
> repeatedly, most of the time to it is corrupted when fetched via POP
> by fetchmail.

And for this test sendings you used ssmtp?
Plus mutt?
But as you said, it is only a problem when retrieving via fetchmail,
i will try to install 'my' fetchmail version at my box, maybe in 
conjunction with procmail.
Really interesting, never tried before.

> > Are your mounts of binary type?
> 
> Yes.

Then that should be no problem.
 
> > Please report if you track down the source of the problems, maybe a
> > problem with the pipes?
> 
> After further experimentation, I believe that I have ruled out
> procmail as a potential culprit.  I replaced procmail with a shell
> script that just cats stdin to a file.  Even without procmail in the
> picture, I'm still getting corrupted messages.  Hence, the problem is
> with fetchmail (or Cygwin itself).

Hmmm, still there is piping...
I will test at my win2k workstation if there is a problem with pipes 
tomorrow.

> > Olaf could you please report exactely what you do to send out a
> > corrupt message? Is it a known issue? I never heard before of
> > problems with mailing through ssmtp on win2k. I will try tomorrow to
> > send some mail with ssmtp and binaries attached.
> 
> I have not had any problems sending email (without or with
> attachments) with ssmtp under Windows 2000.

How is a file attached to ssmtp?
Only via mutt?

gph


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