Re: fetchmail stuipidity

From: HaJo Schatz (hajo_at_hajo.net)
Date: 02/20/05

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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:31:59 +0800

    On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:20 -0700, Craig White wrote:
    > I just manually cleaned off 460+ emails from my ISP's mailbox that I
    > 'fetch' mail from.
    >
    > they were logging in my fetchmail log as...
    >
    > fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
    Same here. After each fetchmail-run (which fetches the legit mails and
    leaves some rubbish behind), I run a small script which telnets into the
    POP3 account and deletes all remaining mail @ the ISP. I'm assuming here
    that the badly formatted mails are spam anyhow. 

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