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

[Steve Baker]

I *think* fetchmail is connecting to postfix via port 25.  I don't have
access to the box at the moment to verify that though.  (I just checked the
online manpage for fetchmail, and according to that delivery to the local
SMTP server is the default).  From memory using 'mail' on the local host
gives the same problem as well.

As I mentioned, swapping sendmail in for postfix seems to handle local
delivery OK, so I'm not sure if the fetchmail->postfix mechanism is
important.

Regards,
Steve
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Grahame Bowland" <grahame at azale.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] fetchmail / postfix / procmail problem - extra ^M's in
mailboxes


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