clamassassin with call to clamav software corrupts mail messages

[Richard E Miles]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:06:12 -0500 (EST)
fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> > This is a follow up on trying to diagnose why I am getting duplicate mail
> > messages. I have turned on verbose in fetchmail call to see if I could see
> > something amiss in fetchmail with my mail server. Yesterday when I envoked
> > fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I did not experience any duplicate mail
> > messages. I perused the log file and everyting looked good. Today when I
> > envoked fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I am experiencing duplicate mail
> > messages again. I looked at the log file and everything seemed to be normal,
> > however after receiving 70 messages it slept for a while. Then it started to
> > receive messages again starting with message 1, then 2, etc. Here is an
> > excerpt from the log:
> > 
> 
> Try telling fetchmail to terminate the session after X number of
> messages.  Then when it starts the next session those already received
> will be gone.
> 
> IMAP and POP3 do not actually do a delete on the server when a session
> is still in progress.  Having fetchmail terminate the session and start
> a new one will trigger the delete on the server for those messages you
> already have seen.

Thanks Jeff for the information. I have added expunge 50 to my .fetchmailrc file.
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097