Re: change recognition modes

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:24:15 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
reader <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I get an error like so:
> 
> getmailrc: operation error (POP error (b'-ERR [SYS/PERM] Unable to
> process From lines (envelopes), change recognition modes or check for
> corrupted mail drop.'))

This isn't a problem with your retriever - it even happened with fetchmail as
well.  It's a bug/system problem/data error at your mail provider.

Contact your mail provider for support.  They need to fix something.

> What are recognition modes? And how might one change them.

I've never heard of such.  It's probably specific to whatever software they
happen to be using to implement mail service.

Charles
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