On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:49:22 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Since the weekend my MUA POP3 connection has failed to receive messages > with this appearing in the log.
Which MUA? > --- POP > RCV: +OK pop.shaw.ca > SND: USER peasthope > RCV: +OK password required for user peasth...@shaw.ca > SND: PASS **** > RCV: +OK server ready > SND: UIDL > RCV: +OK 35 messages > SND: LIST 1 > RCV: -ERR unable to parse msg > SND: RETR 1 > RCV: -ERR unable to parse msg > SND: QUIT > > Failure in parsing "LIST 1" baffles. How big a problem can parsing of 6 > characters be? I have encountered weird problems with a combination of qmail (server) and some bad formatted e-mail messages (most of them spam) when retrieved from my client. Using another MUA can help in some cases. > To understand further, I want a Debian system to automatically retrieve > messages from the POP3 server and put them in /home/peter/mbox. Then > qpopper can let the preferred MUA pop them from the mbox. Which > software should be configured to retrieve from the ISP POP3 server and > store in mbox? Exim, getmail or another? I'm using fetchmail to do that. My schema is as follows: POP3 server (remote site / isp server) → fetchmail → spamassassin → postfix → cyrus (my local pop3 e-mail server) → MUA (clients) I use this setup because I have to distribute e-mails to my network users and so I prefer having a complete pop3/imap server running locally. In your case, you can just reduce the full chain to: POP3 server (remote site / isp server) → fetchmail → your $HOME mailbox → MUA (clients) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jfc8ic$rsl$1...@dough.gmane.org