Re: [SLE] Fetchmail problems (was mms is not a registered protocol)

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 07/12/04

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    The Friday 2004-07-09 at 07:32 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote:

    > > The recomended solution, in my opinion, is to downgrade fetchmail :-/
    > >
    > > Else, somebody patches fetchmail.
    >
    > Thanks for confirming that I'm not nuts. The emails that were being
    > deleted were from just one person, also using a web-based email client.
    > So perhaps her emails were being munged or somehow incorrectly produced
    > and they'd slip through fine with Evolution, but fetchmail would kill
    > them. I'm trying to find this in my logs, but I can't find the correct
    > log so far.

    grep "incorrect header line" /var/log/mail | less

    zgrep "incorrect header line" /var/log/mail*gz | less

    > Thanks, though, for the confirmation that perhaps fetchmail
    > is at fault in this case. How did you downgrade it? i.e. What version
    > did you roll back to?

    I haven't done that yet, I have so many things going on, after upgrading
    from SuSE 8.2 to 9.1 (real life aside), that till I saw your message and
    searched the logs I was not aware that SuSE 9.1 had that version of
    fetchmail. I did my testing with SuSE 8.2, where the version included
    worked correctly (well, not quite), but I tried to upgrade to 6.2.5,
    compiling it myself, and then noticed that problem.

    I mean, I did not downgrade, but upgrade - and then noticed the problem.

    I will probably get the sources from the SuSE 8.2 DVD and downgrade to
    fetchmail-6.2.1-25. I don't expect problems in the downgrade, except one:
    those mails with "incorrect header line" will be left on the server, not
    downloaded.

    Or perhaps I'll investigate the sources... but don't count on it :-)

    Also, I think I will investigate that "getmail" that Preston says. And,
    there is "animail", but I'm not fully convinced about that one (not so
    feature rich). 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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