Re: Unreadable Messages Downloaded

Am 02.05.20 um 17:30 schrieb Mitchell Pryor:
> I just started using 'getmail' for a new project I'm working on and was enjoying the new experience until this happened:
> Problem: Emails sent from our IBM I computer using a 3rd party email utility called MMAIL are unreadable after 'getmail' downloads them.  The Subject, Sender and body appear to be untranslated to ascii.
>
> They look like this:

They look pretty intact to me, and mutt can properly decode and render
them.
Are you sure your mail client is up to 1996 standards? See
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047

> Return-Path: <[email protected]>
> Delivered-To: unknown
> Received: from mail.vwstores.com (10.0.1.6:995) by localhost.localdomain with
>   POP3-SSL; 02 May 2020 14:05:49 -0000
> Received: from ROSENT01.ROSES.COM (10.0.1.2) by mail.vwstores.com (10.0.1.6)
>  with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.319.2; Fri, 1 May 2020 18:30:52 -0400
> Sender: =?UTF-8?B?Q29tcHV0ZXIgUm9vbU==?= <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 18:30:00 -0400
> From: =?UTF-8?B?Q29tcHV0ZXIgUm9vbU==?= <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> To: =?UTF-8?B?VFlMRVIgSEFMTE==?= <[email protected]>,
>     =?UTF-8?B?Uk9OIEtBWU==?= <[email protected]>, =?UTF-8?B?TFlOTiBQQVJIQU1=?=
>     <[email protected]>, =?UTF-8?B?VE9OWUEgUlVUSE==?= <[email protected]>,
>     =?UTF-8?B?U0FORFJBIFNUQU5DSUx=?= <[email protected]>,
>     =?UTF-8?B?SkVSUlkgUE9ZVEhSRVNT?= <[email protected]>,
>     =?UTF-8?B?TUlLRSBQUllPUk==?= <[email protected]>, =?UTF-8?B?T1BT?=
>     <[email protected]>
> Subject: =?UTF-8?B?QVAwNjAzIC0gTUFUQ0hFRCBJTlZPSUNFIENPVU5UIFNVTU1BUll=?=
> X-Mailer: Internet Messaging Framework from IBM System i
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>     boundary="----=_NextPart_000_032_ZMBMKFCF.03OSQRHL"
> X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: vwmail.roses.com
> X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
> X-C2ProcessedOrg: 9bdbe051-e1a1-491b-b228-2f0525564b5c
> MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> Any idea what may be causing this?  Or what I can do to fix it?

The fix is using a proper mail client, then you'll see this instead
(excerpt):

> Sender: Computer Room <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 18:30:00 -0400
> From: Computer Room
> <[email protected]>                                                                                            
>  
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> To: [... omitted to prevent spam/name related harvesting...]
> Subject: AP0603 - MATCHED INVOICE COUNT
> SUMMARY                                                                                    
>

Mike continued:

> I tried using 'fetchmail', but I couldn't get it to work.

Not that I believe switching the fetching software would help, "couldn't
get it to work" is neither a frequent reported issue for fetchmail, not
an appropriate description of the problem. Since it's off-topic here, if
that happened with a recent fetchmail 6.4.x version, then report this
along with all detailed information from
https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3 through fetchmail's
users mailing list. If you were trying 6.3.x or even older, it would be
unsupported.