[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#703738: Bug#703738: fetchmail: Dot at 1st column of any line cuts delivered message

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Pavel Vavra <plamen at square.cz> [2013-03-23 00:47]:
> Hallo maintainer,
> fetchmail break messages with '.' character at 1st column of mail body.
> It sometimes happens receiving mails from MS Outlook where line is
> wrapped just before last dot in a text paragraph. Affected message
> is cut to delivered and undelivered part. Cut position is at the
> described dot, start of message is delivered and the rest disappears.
> No error message is issued to user.
> 
> How to reproduce this bug:
> No MS tools are neccessary to simulate problem. You can simply compose
> a message similar to the following and send it as plain text to a mailserver.
> Then fetch this mail via fetchmail (tested with POP3 protocol) and show it.
> 
> -------
> Sample message. This message wil be partially delivered.
> Cut point is here:
> ..
> This part of message will never be delivered by fetchmail
> -------
> 
> Changing fetchmail to another package, e.g. mpop leads to delivery
> of whole message.

Can you show fetchmail -vvvvvvvvv of such a message fetch?
I can not reproduce this behaviour.

Cheers
Nico
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