[ale] postfix/fetchmail introduces ^Ms into my mail!?

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

I think I've fixed my Carriage Return problem.  Fetchmail has an
option 'stripcr' to strip the CRs from mail before forwarding it on.
Why it is neccesary now and not before I haven't figured out, but at
least it is working now.

Thanks for your attention.

--Michael

hirsch at zapmedia.com writes:
 > Today my email started arriving with Carriage Returns at the end of
 > every line.  My mailer (vm under emacs) shows them as ^M in each line.
 > 
 > My mail comes in from a POP server.  It is a MS Exchange Server
 > running POP3.  I was running fetchmail to grab it from the server and
 > hand it off to postfix to deliver.  I have a Mandrake 8.1 system.
 > 
 > If I don't use fetchmail to get my mail, but just let vm get the mail
 > from the server I don't get the CRs.  If I send myself an email to
 > localhost (so fetchmail doesn't touch it, but postfix does) I don't
 > get the CRs.
 > 
 > I've been using this setup for a while, but a) I have no idea when the
 > MS Exchange server changes, and b) I recently upgraded a bunch of
 > packages using the Mandrake updater, so I'm not sure exactly what got
 > updated.  I know my kernel was updated, but I have trouble believing
 > that is responsible for this.
 > 
 > Here are my relevant packages:
 > fetchmail-5.9.0-4mdk
 > postfix-20010228-15mdk
 > 
 > Anyone seen this before?
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > 
 > Michael
 > 
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