>>>>> "DB" == Daniel Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DB> Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) writes:
>>
>> > I just changed my apt sources.list to testing yesterday and did a
>> > relatively big upgrade. One of the things that has happened though is
>> > that now Gnus shows all the Ctrl-M's at the end of the lines in mail I
>> > get from people using other OS's and from the web (e.g., Yahoo).
>>
>> I've seen that happen after a few upgrades. Usually, restarting
>> fetchmail (which I run in daemon mode) fixes it. I don't know where
>> it comes from.
DB> Ah, fetchmail!
DB> If fetchmail can't connect to an smtp server on port 25, it falls back
DB> to piping messages directly into sendmail. On my system (sendmail is
DB> actually exim) this seems to introduces ^M at the end of each line.
DB> So it seems plausible that fetchmail in daemon mode could attempt a
DB> delivery while exim is stopped during an upgrade. I don't know how
DB> long it carries on delivering messages this way before retesting for a
DB> local smtp server - or indeed if it retests at all. I run it from the
DB> command line; I can confirm that it doesn't retest during a single run
Oh! But doesn't fetchmail's parameter stripcr fix this problem with ^M?
Best regards,
Dimitri
