[fetchmail]Re: envelope "Received" not working

Rob MacGregor Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor@gmail.com>
Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:11:39 +0000


On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:06:08 +0000, Mike Yates <hctef@fonehelp.co.uk> wrote:
> There is another, fully legitimate, reason (other than
> server-clustering) why this could be necessary. My email to
> <anybody>@fonehelp.co.uk is relayed on to my Blueyonder address by
> kundenserver.de (oneandone.co.uk) and any bcc's only have their "for" in
> a "Received" line from kundenserver, not blueyonder, my mailhost.

Well, 1&1 do use the correct header (Envelope-To:), so unless BY are
stripping headers, that should be ok.
 
> Well, then, there should be a configuration option to "accept mis-sized
> mail", should there not?

Actually, it does - I've seen a number of messages that have been
received, where fetchmail complains about the POP/IMAP server getting
the size wrong.  It's only a warning/information message.

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