Re: How to automate email retrieval

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:56:54AM -0800, Scott M. Stone wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 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.

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.

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Shimpei Yamashita                               http://www.shimpei.org/