Re: How to automate email retrieval

[Venkatesh Raghavan <raghavan@example.com>]

Hi all,

Thanks for your responses. Further comments
in the quoted text below.


"Scott M. Stone" wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
>
> > When I do fetchmail on my from my linux client
> > Japanese characters do not get displayed
> > correctly (mojibake again). My mailspool on the
> > mailservers contains messages that are not euc-jp
> >
> > Is there a way of converting the messages to euc-jp encoding
> > while doing fetchmail, like piping to nkf.
>
> might want to also check and make sure you're using the Japanified version
> of fetchmail... there is a port, and I would think that it probably
> addresses this already.

Can't find the Japanified version. The Japanese install document
available at http://www.fkimura.com/fetchmail0.html does not mention
about the Japanified version either.

Shimpei Yamashita wrote:

> Some people have reported problems in the past with older versions of
> fetchmail. Upgrading fetchmail seemed to help. I use fetchmail 5.3.8 and have
> no problems with Japanese mail.

My version was 5.5.2. tried with the 5.7.4 too.

Gomez Noguera David Eduardo wrote:

> I dont know if my reply got to the list, but since i didnt see it, i supose it
>   didnt.
>   so here i go again :)
>   try procmail.
>   later you might find procmail usefull for another bucnhc of tasks.
>

Tried invoking fetchmail through procmail as shown below

> fetchmail -m "/usr/bin/procmail -f - "

but this does not solve the problem.

Japanese characters are displayed correctly after converting my
local mailspool to euc-jp using nkf after fetching the mail.
But this will not allow reading my japanese mail as soon as they
are fetched.

Looking for some further suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

Raghavan
Osaka City University