Re: Fwd: How to get rid of +OK nnnn octets strings [jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net]

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Thu, 12 July 05:34 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> On 2001.07.05 17:04 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> 
> Well, I'm using procmail 3.21 on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE as a mailbox
> filter for Balsa 1.14_2.  Some of the time, things work great.  But,
> particularly with IE 5.x, Netscape, mutt, and Pine-originated
> messages, I get a "+OK nnnn octests" (where nnnn is some number) just

That is a POP 3 response line.

When the RETR command is issued the POP server responds with

+OK arbitrary text
message in RFC 2822 format
.

(the last line is a single period)

> below the From jmcoopr some-date line in the messages I receive.  This

The "From " line at the start of the mailbox is Berkeley brain damage.

> confuses Balsa no end.  Manually deleting the +OK string make Balsa
> happy, but: 1) I can't figure out why procmail is appending this
> string to my inbound messages; 2) I can't figure out any way to
> eliminate this string from these messsages automatically; and 3)
> manually deleting is not practical when I receive several hundred
> messages per day.

I can't see why you get the results you do, but hopefully it will
help knowing where the extra lines come from.

Brian Stafford