[sylpheed:30150] Re: Problems with jpeg picture image attachments

[Steven M. Bellovin]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:07:49 -0700, Richard E Miles
<r.godzilla at comcast.net> wrote:


> 
> I found out what the problem was. It is fetchmail. When I use fetchmail to get my mail from comcast it does not handle large attachments very well. I cahnged sylpheed to use the comcast mail service directly and now I can get attachments with multiple pictures just fine. I've abandoned fetchmail as a way to get mail from comcast.

Do you have any more data on what the problem was?  I've used fetchmail
for several years, without any such problem.  Might it have been a
too-tight timeout for a large file?  That's configurable, I believe.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb