On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 08:36:11AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Note, that I do not say sendmail did nuke my mail but rather like to find > out which of the programs involved. If it was fetchmail then fetchmail has a > rather serious bug IMO. A long time ago I posted one or two messages to the effect that fetchmail was a piece of pure dung for wantonly violating RFC's (like 2015 -- hey, let's dick with quoted-printable mails before writing them to the spool, thus guaranteeing that cryptographic signatures on those messages would fail...real clever, guys), and for turning on aggressive antispam filters by default that would flush legitimate mails down the shitter. It continues to do the latter. Good to see that fetchmail is so assiduously maintained upstream. But ESR is too busy defiying himself as a member of the hacker elite (cf. _The Cathedral and the Bazzar_, O'Reilly, 1999) to actually do any hacking. [Of course, I am guilty of laziness myself -- since I am fortunate enough to have shell access to my POP host, I could handle my mail far more efficiently: ssh -C roger.ecn.purdue.edu "mv $MAIL $HOME/mymail" && scp -C roger.ecn.purdue.edu:mymail /tmp && formail -s procmail < /tmp/mymail In fact, I think I will test something like this right now.] -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us branden@ecn.purdue.edu | suffer Christianity. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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