fetchmail stuipidity

[Paul Howarth]

Mike Klinke wrote:
> 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.

A possible workaround might be to try "getmail" instead of "fetchmail"; 
I have RPMs for getmail at: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/mail/

Paul.