Re: Problems with downloads from hotmail

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Hi,

I've attached a trimmed down redacted version of one such email. 
Hopefully you can see it is at the top of the original message with the 
fetchmail rewrite above it.

Regards,

Ian

On 01/01/2026 1:10 pm, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> where exactly is the BOM? Can you show an example? Feel free to 
> replace any printable character by x to mask private information.
>
> POP3 and IMAP headers clearly are not UTF-8 or UTF-16 according to 
> standards, so a provider's inserting 0xFF or 0xFE characters is a 
> blatant violation of the protocol and I guess not just fetchmail will 
> have trouble with that.
>
>
> Am 31. Dezember 2025 18:09:15 UTC schrieb Ian Neal 
> <[email protected]>:
>
>     Hi, I currently use fetchmail 7.0.0-alpha13 running on Fedora 42
>     to pull emails down from hotmail with OAuth2 and delivery to my
>     local dovecot email server. Up until the last few weeks I've not
>     had any issues with downloading emails, but now I've started
>     having an issue where an <feff> character gets inserted just
>     before the start of the main header (so after the local part
>     inserted by fetchmail). My fetchmailrc file is along the lines of:
>     poll pop-mail.outlook.com proto POP3 port 995 auth oauthbearer
>     username "[email protected]" passwordfile "fetchmail-token" is
>     "user" here nokeep fetchall sslmode wrapped sslcertck Anyone got
>     any ideas/suggestions? Thanks, Ian
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