[fetchmail]comcast.net and attachments - workaround

[Rob MacGregor]

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On 03/01/06, Ed Wilts <ewilts@ewilts.org> wrote:
> FAQ # I8 says:
>
> "Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast.net server...but they seem to
> have an 80K limit on the length of downloaded messages. Anything larger
> is silently truncated. Don't mistake this for a fetchmail bug."
>
> I have found a workaround to this issue that may work for some people -
> it works for me.  I added fetchall to my .fetchmailrc and this works
> around the problem.  Interactively, fetchmail -a also works.
<---SNIP--->
> [ewilts@pe400 ~]$ fetchmail -V
> This is fetchmail release 6.2.5+IMAP-GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+INET6+NLS
> Fallback MDA: (none)
> Linux pe400.ewilts.home 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL #1 Thu Oct 27 13:20:09 EDT 2005
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

It would be good to know the state of affairs with 6.3.1 (the current relea=
se).

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