The Friday 2004-07-09 at 07:32 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:
The recomended solution, in my opinion, is to downgrade fetchmail :-/
Else, somebody patches fetchmail.
Thanks for confirming that I'm not nuts. The emails that were being deleted were from just one person, also using a web-based email client. So perhaps her emails were being munged or somehow incorrectly produced and they'd slip through fine with Evolution, but fetchmail would kill them. I'm trying to find this in my logs, but I can't find the correct log so far.
grep "incorrect header line" /var/log/mail | less zgrep "incorrect header line" /var/log/mail*gz | less
Thanks, though, for the confirmation that perhaps fetchmail is at fault in this case. How did you downgrade it? i.e. What version did you roll back to?
I haven't done that yet, I have so many things going on, after upgrading from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1 (real life aside), that till I saw your message and searched the logs I was not aware that SuSE 9.1 had that version of fetchmail. I did my testing with SuSE 8.2, where the version included worked correctly (well, not quite), but I tried to upgrade to 6.2.5, compiling it myself, and then noticed that problem. I mean, I did not downgrade, but upgrade - and then noticed the problem. I will probably get the sources from the SuSE 8.2 DVD and downgrade to fetchmail-6.2.1-25. I don't expect problems in the downgrade, except one: those mails with "incorrect header line" will be left on the server, not downloaded. Or perhaps I'll investigate the sources... but don't count on it :-) Also, I think I will investigate that "getmail" that Preston says. And, there is "animail", but I'm not fully convinced about that one (not so feature rich). -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson