Thanks to all who responded. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Check for the file .<username>.pop in the mailspool directory. This > error indicatates, that there is something in a line which should be a > mbox separator line, that is a line beginning with the string "From " > and so on. Either delete .<username>.pop (only if the original > <username> spool file is fine) or edit the file using your favorite > text editor. I have never seen files with the names like .<username>.pop in the mailspool directory. The standard mail file /var/spool/mail/<username> was readable by the mail program. I also tried renaming the file to /var/spool/mail/<username>.old and then sending new mail, but this did not work either. Finally, after reading your responses, I was convinced that it is a mail file problem. Then I tried renaming the file again, but this time to /var/spool/mail/old.<username> When I tried fetchmail again, a couple of weeks worth of old email suddently showed up in the mail spool file. I don't have a clue about why this worked, but everything is back to normal. I will just have to extract the missing email from the old.<username> file that I created. Cheers, Karl
