On 22-Aug-2000 Rick Glunt wrote:
> 1) Open to suggestion to replace fetchmail
It's not too bad, and not the cause of your problem.
I suppose you use fetchmail to inject the mail into
qmail, and you then read it using a mailer of sorts.
Knowing which mailer would be a help.
> 2) Error messages vary. One sample is "This is a MIME message. If you are
> reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or
> gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME messages."
There's an error in the MIME structure of the message. The fact
that you can see it in your mailer means that both fetchmail and
qmail have worked correctly.
>
> My mail read will handle MIME, however, I'm not sure what it wants as far as
> a gateway. Could it be fetchmail or is there another missing link I have
> overlooked?
As a matter of fact, the message you read was inserted as
a place holder by the remote mailer. The fact that you
see it means
a) your mailer has a problem
b) the message was incorrectly written by the remote
client
c) it got stuffed in transit (fetchmail could have done
it, but AFAIK stuffing up MIME messages is not one
of its passtimes.
If you care to send me a zipped copy of the entire message
(easy if it's in Maildir, not so easy otherwise), then
I'd be happy to have a look at it.
Stefaan
--
This was a thread between ignorant people until I jumped in.
-- Richard Kulisz in gnu.misc.discuss
