On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:25:10AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > Just for curiosity, can you try > "[email protected]"\x5c"[email protected]" > in you .fetchmailrc ? The manpage is not clear whether you can use \xhh > in quoted string (though highly likely).
Tried it, and in fetchmail it still passes the wrong number of backslashes. As far as I can tell, fetchmail and O365 only exchange an even number of backslashes: one gets you 0, two gets 2, three gets 2, four gets 4, and so on. I have no idea why this should be so, apart from the Universal Law of Software Perversity. Doesn't matter if I do straight characters, quoted or escaped characters, decimal, octal, hexadecimal ... -- Peter King [email protected] Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-978-3311 dept Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42
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