HI Hal et al ......
On Tuesday 22 May 2001 19:08, Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: Has anyone else experienced this? Our ISP's dial up
> mailbox get's "strange" when it receives a message from one of our
> correspondents, only one.
> When fetching any amount of mail the screen reports "Seqmentation
> Fault" only when one of his messages is in the box.. Subsequent
> fetches shows that the read mail was not purged even though the
> proper flag was set with our mail client; FetchPop.. Fetching is
> normal as long as his message is absent. ( He emails from any of eight
> machines at a Library in Florida, presumably with M$ software.) ( Most
> of the machines send quoted printable which is a pain. :^)..)
>
> On the next fetch we get the entire bunch of messages again, and
> this can go on ad infinitum until I go into the mailbox manually and
> flush it using FetchMail..
>
> Dunno if our setup means anything, but we are running Slackware7.1
> with kernel 2.2.16..
This happened to me too. But I was never able to fix it. It only happened
from two different email addresses. Both were one-way email lists. At last I
un-sub'ed from them and that stopped the problem. Later I went to Kmail and
no longer have the problem.
But when I was working on it. I found two things. #1 both people were sending
emails by way of outlook. #2 It seemed that the problem was not with fetchpop
but with procmail. The email was always d/l'ed and then the seq fault
happened. I turned procmail off and the stuff d/l'ed fine.
If I remember correctly you can delete the bad email with fetchpop by this
command : "fetchpop -e 1" this will delete the first email on your ISP's
list.
Hope this helps.....
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