[fetchmail]comcast.net and attachments - workaround
Jakob Hirsch
jh@plonk.de
Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:29:30 +0100 (CET)
Ed Wilts wrote:
> 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.
The reason for that is that fetchmail uses TOP by default (stupid, IMHO,
but ESR insisted on this for some kind of poor man's IMAP), but RETR when
fetchall is set. And as the FAQ says:
Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast.net server...but the Maillennium
POP3 server comcat uses seems to have an 80K limit on the length of
downloaded messages if you use POP3 TOP to retrieve. [...]