Re: Problems with downloads from hotmail

Hi,

Attaching gzip'd so it the file doesn't get mangled in transit.

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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