[plug] fetchmail / postfix / procmail problem - extra ^M's in mailboxes

[Grahame Bowland]

On Friday 11 October 2002 21:10, Steve Baker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Mandrake 8.2 on a LAN gateway PC last week, and I'm having
> trouble getting the mail to work properly.  The system uses fetchmail to
> grab mail from a multidrop mailbox, fetchmail splits it up then gives it to
> postfix which uses procmail to deliver it to the local mailboxes.
>
> This part works fine, with the exception that when I look at the user
> mailboxes I can see that 'somebody' in the chain is adding ^M characters to
> the end of every line in the message - except the first line.  Consequently
> as the Outlook Express clients POP in and pick up the email, each message
> has blank 'from' and 'subject' lines, which now appear along with all the
> other headers in the body of the message.
>
> It *appears* to be postfix's fault, since I replaced postfix with sendmail
> and the problem went away with no alteration to procmail or fetchmail
> configurations.  However I now have a whole set of different problems with
> getting the sendmail configuration right, and I would rather go back to
> postfix if I could just get this extra carriage-return problem resolved.
> Can anyone help?

How are you passing the mail from fetchmail to postfix -- via a program like 
'mail' or over port 25 on localhost?
 
-grahame