[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#740373: Bug#740373: fetchmail: Generated emails about authentication failure is missing message-id

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue May 20 19:35:35 UTC 2014


Am 28.02.2014 19:26, schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> 
> Package: fetchmail
> Version: 6.3.21-4
> 
> Hi.  When fetchmail is unable to log into the IMAP server to fetch
> emails, it inject an email into the mail spool to report this problem.
> But the injected email lack message-id, causing the notmuch mail
> indexing system to not handle these emails very well.  I discovered this
> when my scripts processing emails just failed to discover these when
> looping over all message-ids.

The header is optional according to RFC5322. If "notmuch" does not cope
with that, have fetchmail inject mail into an MTA that works and
generates missing Message-ID headers.



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