fetchmail stuipidity

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:31 +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:20 -0700, 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
> Same here. After each fetchmail-run (which fetches the legit mails and
> leaves some rubbish behind), I run a small script which telnets into the
> POP3 account and deletes all remaining mail @ the ISP. I'm assuming here
> that the badly formatted mails are spam anyhow.
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can I look at the script - I only need the part after the login - I
simply don't know the commands to speak IMAP once I am logged in and
searches on the internet have been fairly unclear. In my case, they
indeed were all spam that I deleted. and since I started this thread a
few days ago, there are now 8 of them already.

It appears that they have a null character in the header which fetchmail
must not like and from Mike Klimke's explanation and going back through
the email exchange, it appears that my ISP's smtp server is rather
liberal (some might say broken) in what it accepts for email.

Craig