[GTALUG] Fetchmail and Office365 and backslashes, oh my!

[Peter King]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:25:34PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:

> On 2018-07-16 11:23 AM, Peter King via talk wrote:
> > fetchmail it still passes the wrong number of backslashes. As far as I
> > can tell, fetchmail and O365 only exchange an even number of backslashes:
> > one gets you 0, two gets 2, three gets 2, four gets 4, and so on.
> 
> This is starting to sound like a bug in fetchmail or it is some sort of 
> compatibility "feature" with Office365. If fetchmail isn't converting two 
> backslashes to one I would talk with the fetchmail people and/or file a bug 
> report.

Given that getmail works seamlessly, I'm inclined to think it's a bug in
fetchmail (or a bug in the way it interacts with Office365).  I'll send a
note to ESR about it.

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