Re: fetchmail troubles with faulty headers

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:24:44 +0100

fabio vassalli <fabio.vassalli@bluewin.ch> wrote:

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> To retrive e-mails, I use fetchmail, but its not reliable and I didn't find
> a fechmail-news-group.

> Here my problem: fetchmail blocks on some (faulty?) headers:

> fetchmail: awakened at Mon Jan 12 07:46:27 2004
> fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge
> fetchmail: 45 messages for fabio.vassalli at pop.bluewin.ch (726897 octets).
> fetchmail: reading message fabio.vassalli@pop.bluewin.ch:1 of 45 (5761
> octets) fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
> fetchmail: message delimiter found while scanning headers
> fetchmail:  flushed
> fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.bluewin.ch
> fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)
> fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge
> fetchmail: sleeping at Mon Jan 12 07:47:09 2004

> I have to remove the faulty mail manually to get fetchmail to downlaod the
> other mails. Who could help me?

You can telnet to a POP3 server and delete directly on the server
or even easier get your hands on 'poppy' (search freshmeat.net) a
small perl script allowing deleting mails interactive directly on
a POP3 server.

Good luck

BTW
You could have found the answer searching goups.google.com, AFAIR
this question has been answered quite often. 

-- 
Michael Heiming
Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for 
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

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