Re: Gnus corrupt mailbox w/ nnml

[Kyle Sexton]

On 10/21/07, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@relwi.unibe.ch> wrote:
> Hi Kyle
>
> "Kyle Sexton" <ks@mocker.org> writes:
>
> > Well, that explains my problem I guess.  The first line says:
> >
> > ~$ head -n1 Work.spool
> > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5
> > ~$
> >
> > In fact, the ^From isn't until line 18:
> >
> > ~$ cat Work.spool | nl | grep From
> >     18  From: "Anon Ymous" <anon@anon.com>
> > ~$
>
> The whole trick is to tell procmail to create a standard mbox wherein
> all Mails begin with a From-Header (without :). To achive this, you
> have to start procmail with the option -f %F.
>
> So add this to the poll-line in your .fetchmailrc, for example:
>
> poll your_mail_account with proto POP3 user 'your_pop_user_name' there
>        with password 'secret' is 'your_local_username' here options
>        keep ssl mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F"
>
> That's all.
>
> Bye,
>
> Sven
>

Worked like a charm, thanks a bunch.


-- 
Kyle Sexton