fetchmail stuipidity

[Mike Klinke]

On Friday 18 February 2005 01:20, 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
> 

I first noticed this behavior back in May of 2003. A change was made 
at this point to "bullet proof" the header-to-body detection code 
and the end result forces those messages with a defective header to 
be retained on the server.  Versions of fetchmail prior ot 6.1.3 
didn't exhibit this behavior.  There was a patch released to 
address this problem by one of the maintainers but it was shortly 
after that time that I no longer needed fetchmail on any of my 
systems; well, until this week ... and I'm now seeing the same 
problem again that you describe on one test box here.  If you look 
at the fetchmail archives you should see a bit of discussion on 
this topic.  There was also a bit of discussion on the Redhat-List 
around that time.

Regards, Mike Klinke