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Re: another silly question



On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:42:41AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> There are drawbacks, starting by the fact that fetchmail has the bad habit
> of losing mail (and getmail is bad for security as it needs a password

Just thought I should make the point that fetchmail has never lost me any
mail yet, as far as I'm aware.

> No, base64 is really bad for that. QP is probably much better. But anyway,
> most mail software (MUA or MDA) won't choose an alternative encoding
> magically.

MDA software should not be changing the format of the mail it's delivering.
Its job is purely to put the mail into the mailbox, nothing else.

-- 
Paul

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