Re: change recognition modes

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

Haa, ok, I thought similar at first thought, but I had been messing
about with 2 mail retrieval tools and thought I might have jacked
something up.

Thanks for the info.