Re: Transient fetchmail corruption problem under Windows 2000

[Olaf Foellinger <Olaf dot Foellinger at bln dot sesa dot de>]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:31:10AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
> [I normally would not post such a vague bug report but since this problem
> significantly impacts my mail delivery I hope that I will be allowed some
> latitude...]
> 
> I am using fetchmail/procmail/mutt to retrieve, process, and read my
> email.  I recently changed from using a Windows NT 4.0 SP5 to a Windows
> 2000 SP1 machine.  Shortly thereafter, I started to notice that some
> of the emails that I received with binary attachments were corrupted.
> 
> After sending the same message to myself repeatedly and examining the
> raw message in an mbox file, I began to see the following pattern.
> The corrupted messages are always larger than they should be and there
> are chunks of garbage characters in them.  Sometimes the MIME separators
> are repeated as if fetchmail shuttered when writing to down the pipe to
> procmail (this is probably just a special case of the garbage characters).
> 
> Not all messages get corrupted.  A little more half were corrupted --
> the others were fine.  I also POP-ed directly into the mail server and
> verified that the messages were not corrupt and only became so when I
> used fetchmail to retrieve them.
> 
> I tried various versions of fetchmail (5.8.12, 5.8.14, 5.8.16) and
> Cygwin (1.3.2, my CVS build, latest snapshot).  All exhibit the same
> transient binary attachment corruption problem.
> 
> When I repeat the same experiments on my old Windows NT 4.0 SP5 machine,
> I have not received any corrupted email (yet).
> 
> Is anyone using fetchmail under Windows 2000?  If so, are you experience
> any problems?

I don't use fetchmail, but with mutt and ssmtp all my sent binary
attachments get corrupted on W2000SP1. Don't know why, didn't try it
under NT.


Gruss Olaf

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Olaf Föllinger
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