fetchmail stuipidity

[Richard E Miles]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:52:56 -0700
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ----
> 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
> 
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As an added note, you shouldn't need to write a script to erase your email from
your isp. Put expunge 1 in your .fetchmailrc file. That will erase the mail
for each message received.

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097