Re: Help Fetchmail Expected Length error?

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 12:14:52PM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Trying to fix up several recent errors in getting mail. One I noticed
> causing the odd socket error is "message 1 was not the expected length
> (2749 actual != 2752 expected)
> 
> Help appreciated.

Note that I'm by no means an expert on mail, but anyhow...
This socket/length error makes me think that something goes wrong
in the local smtp connection (don't know, just guessing:).
If so you could try to shortcircuit it a little with the 'mda' option
set to "/usr/bin/procmail  -d %T".  This bypasses exim (and the smtp
socket). This option is a fetchmail 'user' option, so put it in the
appropriate place after "user ...".  Hope this works as a temporary
solution.

-- 
groetjes, carel