On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> When I use fetchmail, I inevitably get messages saying that the
> message was not the expected length:
>
> fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 2147483647
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4161 octets
> fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (4161 bytes)
> fetchmail: about to deliver with: /usr/bin/procmail
> /etc/procmailrcs/procmailrc
> #******************************************************************************)
> fetchmail: message 1 was not the expected length (4274 != 4161)
> fetchmail: flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
>
> This causes many problems because this is being fetched from a
> multi-drop box. When I get this error message, I find that each
> incorrectly sized message has the next message concatenated to it
> and the From header has been mangled to a >From line. I have
> tried going through the diags in the FAQ for fetchmail. This is
> running on a RHL 5.1 system. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
> My users would appreciate their mail, and their privacy! How do
> I get fetchmail to get the messages correctly from the pop3
> server?
>
> Kevin
>
>
> --
Kevin I have the same problem it happen with large headers. I posted a
message before and not real solutions pop up.
I am waiting too. I call mine sticky mail.
Enjoy,
Richard
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