fetchmail stuipidity

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:26 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 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/
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probably more than a possible workaround - I may take you on that offer
but for now, I'll fool with it some more.

Thanks

Craig