Re: UTF-8 error email from freeuk (Clara)

Thanks for yoour support, Charles, I've updated to the latest (v5) edition
and applied the patch but I'm still getting the same problem.

It is Clara.net who provide the email service, I also use Ionos (1and1).

The problem is on a small subset of messages from a small subset of mailing
lists. I think it is a problem with clara.net. My freeuk.co.uk adresses are
legacy ones hosted by clara.

I will transfer teh affected mailing lists to a 1and1 hosted email address
and see what happens, at least with 1and1 I can use imap rather than pop.

I will let you know in a few weeks what has happened.

Brian

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Brian D <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have been using getmail without problems for many years.
> > 
> > Currently I'm using getmail 4.54.0
> 
> That's pretty old.  In general, I'd recommend you update to the latest
> 5.16. However, that alone won't fix this problem (I think).
> 
> > Recently emails (undated) have been arriving from freeuk? saying my
> > email program doesn't support UTF-8. the email enclosed with these
> > messages is from various email lists I have been subscribed from for
> > years.
> > 
> > Has clara blacklisted getmail as a result of the faulty fork?
> 
> Not sure what clara is.  clara.net?
> 
> Anyway, I think you're running into an issue another user reported, which
> appeared to be an interesting new "feature" of some POP/IMAP server
> software.
> 
> I tested a bit and posted a one-line patch for that user to try, but he
> did not post his results.
> 
> https://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=162819550823463&w=2
> 
> Can you apply that patch to your local copy, and let us know if it solves
> the problem for you?  If it does, I will add this hack-fix into the next
> version of getmail.
> 
> By the way, that was quite the sample email :)
> 
> Charles


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