Re: POP3 UTF-8 support

Kopornoky Tamás <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm using getmail to download mail via pop3 to an ubuntu box. I usually get
> mail daemon errors like this:
> ----------
> This E-mail message was determined to be Unicode-formatted
> but your E-mail reader does not support Unicode E-mail.

Just for the heck of it, try the attached patch against your local copy of
getmail.  It just onconditionally sends that UTF8 command from RFC6856 after
logging in.  It'll probably cause getmail to throw an exception later - I'm
guessing a UnicodeDecodeError, probably - but it's worth a shot.

Please report what happens.  If it looks like a straightforward fix I might
add this as a proper feature.

Charles

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Index: getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py
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--- getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py	(revision 1059)
+++ getmailcore/_retrieverbases.py	(working copy)
@@ -1188,6 +1188,10 @@
             else:
                 self.conn.user(self.conf['username'])
                 self.conn.pass_(self.conf['password'])
+
+            # Hack - see if rfc6856 works
+            self.conn._shortcmd('UTF8')
+
             self._getmsglist()
             self.log.debug('msgids: %s'
                            % sorted(self.msgnum_by_msgid.keys()) + os.linesep)