Re: POP3 UTF-8 support

That would be great! I actually first tried getmail after using fetch mail
for years and was disappointed the switch didn’t fix the issue (but still
stuck to getmail)

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 00:19 Kopornoky Tamás <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> Thanks for the updates. This is a live system so I can patch and test it in
> the weekend, I'll come back with the findings.
>
> Regards,
> /Tamás
>
> Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont:
> 2021. aug. 5., Cs, 22:32):
>
> > 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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