retchmail bug - eating attachments
Zenaan Harkness
zen at freedbms.net
Sun Aug 30 01:11:14 UTC 2009
Retchmail is amazingly fast.
But it continues to eat these attachments.
I shall now look into alternatives.
I feel a little sad that I cannot properly take advantage or retchmail,
but eating my attachments just doesn't work for me, not matter how fast
it is.
I shall follow the thread though ...
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:13:17AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> bump.
>
> Gday.
>
> PLEASE let me know if there is a better place/ mailing list that I
> can post my requests for help on retchmail.
>
> I get one or two such emails, nearly every day, and each time attachment
> is still eaten.
>
> Here's one from just now: retchmail output:
>
> $ retchmail
> A* Retrieve mail from zenaan.harkness at pop.gmail.com:995 into justa.
> B* Retrieve mail from zenaan at pop.gmail.com:995 into justa.
> A Recv(HELLO): +OK Gpop ready for requests from 121.200.7.42 35pf10306151pxi.11
> B Recv(HELLO): +OK Gpop ready for requests from 121.200.7.42 36pf10090702pxi.74
> B* 74 messages in 1899996 bytes.
> A* 77 messages in 1245064 bytes.
> B [1] 7.9k <r.m.guerrero at usit.u> Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Forrester: Ingres a
> B [2] 7.9k <schmiddy at gmail.com> Re: [NOVICE] pg_dump
> A [3] 5.5k <catalina.oancea at gma> Re: [Kamailio-Users] Phones that support
> ...
> A [73] 26k <d at d-man.org> Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH 1.0.4
> A [34] 34k <MPeace at edcogroupinc> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Moved Freeswitch
> B [6] 212k
> A [45] 31k <tculjaga at gmail.com> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Freeswitch perfor
> B <inspector_rikati at ya> see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistr
> A [46] 30k <msc at freeswitch.org> Re: [Freeswitch-users] Moved Freeswitch
> ...
>
>
> Please note the lines:
> B [6] 212k
>
> and:
> B <inspector_rikati at ya> see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistr
>
>
> Now, in mutt, I have the following line:
> 29 N 090825 Mr Gerrit H. Sc (0.6K) see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistrar Whitaker re-adjournment-etc
>
>
> In my procmail log I have the following 3 lines:
> From justa at ip61.upmart.info Wed Aug 26 08:46:09 2009
> Subject: see attachment 090825-G54449-00-DRegistrar Whitaker re-adjournment-et
> Folder: /home/justa/Mail/gmail 5287
>
>
> In my /var/log/mail.info, I have sets of lines like the following:
> Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/pickup[3550]: 73F7D20919: uid=1000 from=<justa>
> Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/cleanup[6454]: 73F7D20919: message-id=<09db01ca25a2$0a8b4730$0a00a8c0 at pazu>
> Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/qmgr[3551]: 73F7D20919: from=<justa at ip61.upmart.info>, size=243110, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/local[5284]: 73F7D20919: to=<justa at ip61.upmart.info>, orig_to=<justa>, relay=local, delay=4.2, delays=4.1/0/0/0.07, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION" -o -f -)
> Aug 26 08:46:28 ip61 postfix/qmgr[3551]: 73F7D20919: removed
>
>
> Finally, my /etc/postfix/main.cf contains the following line:
> mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION" -o -f -
>
>
> TIA
> Zenaan
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 02:13:31PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > retchmail appears to be eating attachments, but only specific
> > attachments, as in ones that come from a particular contact of mine,
> > Gerrit Schorel-Hlavka. Quite probably he is using some old mail client
> > on MSWindows which is not doing correct mime attachments or something.
> >
> > I receive a few emails from Gerrit each week.
> >
> > I started using retchmail on or about 31 July 2009 - just a couple weeks
> > ago really.
> >
> > I have attached two emails:
> >
> > *
> > The first is an original email with attachment, from Gerrit. This as you
> > can see by the date, I received mid-July, before using retchmail (I was
> > using the dog-slow fetchmail before).
> >
> > *
> > The second is this same email which I just bounced to myself, to test
> > it, now that I've realised it's retchmail causing the problem. As you
> > can see, no attachment!
> >
> >
> > My environment:
> >
> > retchmail
> > postfix
> > procmail
> > mutt
> >
> >
> > Tests I have performed/ data points:
> >
> > *
> > All emails with attachments, received from Gerrit since July 31, have
> > lost their attachments.
> >
> > *
> > Bouncing the good email with attachment, to myself through local machine
> > (postfix -> local account) successfully routes through procmail, and
> > into my Mail/ directory (checking my mail.info and procmail logs).
> >
> > *
> > Bouncing the good email with attachment, out to my gmail account, then
> > downloading with retchmail, caused the email to route through my local
> > postfix, then to procmail and into my local Mail/ directory (checking
> > postfix + promail logs), BUT WITHOUT ATTACHMENT, as in, the second
> > attachment to this email is the result!
> >
> >
> > If you need me to test anything further, please ask.
> >
> > If you will, please confirm that you received this email, and let me
> > know if possible of any progress/ thoughts on the missing attachments.
> >
> > If there is somewhere else I should send this bug report, please also
> > let me know.
> >
> > (I really, really don't want to go back to fetchmail, as it's an
> > absolute pig in terms of speed, but not losing attachments unfortunately
> > ranks higher in importance to speed for my work use case.)
> >
> > Nailbitingly,
> > Zenaan
> >
> > --
> > Homepage: www.SoulSound.net -- Free Australia: www.UPMART.org
> > Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
>
> > Delivered-To: zenaan at gmail.com
> > Delivered-To: zen at freedbms.net
> > To: ronfrederick at hotmac.com.au
> > Cc: inspector_rikati at yahoo.com.au, marco.mirabella at moretonbay.qld.gov.au,
> > leo.mirabella at defence.gov.au, Peter.sier at statetrustees.com.au,
> > Pamela.Watson at supremecourt.vic.gov.au,
> > brendan.hoysted at justice.vic.gov.au, vcat at vcat.vic.gov.au
> > X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/6.0.18 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.15
> > From: "Mr Gerrit H. Schorel-Hlavka" <inspector_rikati at yahoo.com.au>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:23:14 -0700 (PDT)
> > Subject: See attachment 090717-Ron Frederick solicitor Re Mirabella-etc
> >
> > WITHOUT PREJUDICE & CONFIDENTIAL
> > Ron Frederick, Solicitor . 17-7-2009
> > ronfrederick at hotmac.com.au
> >
> > Cc; * Marco Mirabella marco.mirabella at moretonbay.qld.gov.au
> > * Alexandra Axford, General Manager Corporation Relations State Trustees Ltd
> > C/o Peter.sier at statetrustees.com.au
> > . * Mr Leo Mirabella (SCV No 1240415 of 2009) leo.mirabella at defence.gov.au
> > * Mr Peter Sier, Senior Personal Financial Consultant, State Trustees
> > Peter.sier at statetrustees.com.au
> > * Pamela Walton Pamela.Watson at supremecourt.vic.gov.au
> > Associate to The Honourable Associate Justice Evans
> > Ph: 96039327 Fax 9603 9320
> > * Mr Brendan Hoysted brendan.hoysted at justice.vic.gov.au
> > OPA Duty Officer at VCAT – Guardianship List, 5th Floor – 436 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Vic, 3000, Ph; 9603 9500 – 1800 136 829 Fax 9603 9501
> > * Justice Bell vcat at vcat.vic.gov.au
> > .
> > . Re Mirabella matters - etc
> > Sir,
> > See attachment 090717-Ron Frederick solicitor Re Mirabella-etc
> > .
> > Mr G. H. Schorel-Hlavka
> > .
> > 17-7-2009
> >
> >
> > MAY JUSTICE ALWAYS PREVAIL®
> > Mr. G. H. Schorel-Hlavka, GUARDIAN
> > 107 Graham Road, Viewbank, 3084, Victoria, Australia
> > Ph (International) 61394577209
> > .
> > Email; mayjusticealwaysprevail at schorel-hlavka.com
> > help at office-of-the-guardian.com (constitutional matters only)
> >
> > "CONSTITUTIONALIST" and Author of books in the INSPECTOR-RIKATI® series on certain constitutional and other legal issues.
> > .
> > EITHER WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION OR WE DON'T!
> >
> > .
> > Website;
> > http://www.schorel-hlavka.com
> > Blog;
> > http://au.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-ijpxwMQ4dbXm0BMADq1lv8AYHknTV_QH .
> >
> >
> > "JUSTICE IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER AND CLOUDED BY HIS/HER SIGHT DEFICIENCY" .
> >
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________________________
> > Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile. Anytime. Anywhere.
> > Show me how: http://au.mobile.yahoo.com/mail
>
>
>
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