[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#432149: fetchmailconf: username with '@' required by email service provider causes problems

[Britton Leo Kerin]

Package: fetchmailconf
Version: 6.3.6-1
Severity: normal


I have a service provider which requires my username to be:

   bkerin at fastmail.fm

fetchmailconf warns me that this can cause trouble, but I don't have a
choice since this is what fastmail explicitly requires.  The produced 
config file then contains the line:

poll mail.messagingengine.com with proto IMAP
       user 'bkerin at fastmail.fm' there with password 'r at rsnort13820' is 'bkerin at fastmail.fm' here options keep

Which isn't what I want (want just bkerin here).  I hand edited it and
it solved my problem.  But if major email service providers like
fastmail.fm are going to require usernames like this, I think it would
be worth some sort of configuration help to support it.

Incidently, I first tried to make things go using just fetchmail from
the command line, but using -u bkerin at fastmail.fm there caused
'bkerin at fastmail.fm@the.host.they.make.you.use' to get used
elsewhere.  I didn't find out how to avoid this problem with command
line options, so I'm still coming out ahead with fetchmailconf.  But
something maybe should be done to clarify how to use the command line
options in this case as well.  Note that the.host.they.make.you.use is
not 'fastmail.fm', hence the trouble.

Britton

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ii  python-central                0.5.12     register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-tk                     2.4.4-1    Tkinter - Writing Tk applications 

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