Problem with exim and localhost
I've been running fetchmail and exim happily together for about a month (my system's connected to cable ISP). but yesterday it all came to a grinding halt.
Fetchmail seems OK, though it reports a difference between expected and actual lengths for each fetched message. The following is vverbose output from fetchmail for the first message (blank lines indicate removal of extraneous stuff, like the other 163 messages):
Aug 20 08:06:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: starting fetchmail 5.3.3 daemon
Aug 20 08:06:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: 5.3.3 querying mailhost.dccnet.com (protocol auto) at Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:06:47 -0700 (PDT)
Aug 20 08:11:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: 5.3.3 querying mailhost.dccnet.com (protocol POP3) at Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:11:47 -0700 (PDT)
Aug 20 08:11:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK MailSite POP3 Server 4.5.4.0 Ready <48828696.998320307.954@dccnet.com>
Aug 20 08:11:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> USER camellison^M
Aug 20 08:11:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK camellison is welcome here
Aug 20 08:11:47 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> PASS *^M
Aug 20 08:11:48 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK camellison's mailbox has 164 message(s) (568213 octets)
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: selecting or re-polling default folder
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> STAT
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK 164 568213
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> LAST
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK 0
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: 164 messages for camellison at mailhost.dccnet.com (568213 octets).
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> LIST^M
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK 164 messages (568213 octets)
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< 1 7429
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< .
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: reading message 1 of 164 (7429 octets)
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: About to rewrite Return-path: <bounce-debian-user=camellison=dccnet.com@lists.debian.org>^M Rewritten version is Return-path: <bounce-debian-user=camellison=dccnet.com@lists.debian.org>^M
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: forwarding to localhost
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<bounce-debian-user=camellison=dccnet.com@lists.debian.org> SIZE=7429
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: SMTP> RSET
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: Saved error is still 354
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: message 1 was not the expected length (7421 actual != 7429 expected)
Aug 20 08:11:51 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: not flushed
Aug 20 08:11:57 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3> QUIT^M
Aug 20 08:11:57 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: POP3< +OK yoda.dccnet.com POP3 server signing off (164 messages left)
Aug 20 08:11:58 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
Aug 20 08:11:58 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: SMTP> QUIT
Aug 20 08:11:58 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: Deleting fetchids file.
Aug 20 08:11:58 treehouse fetchmail[23858]: fetchmail: sleeping at Mon, 20 Aug 2001 08:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
Exim then gives this error message:
2001-08-20 08:11:47 unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP data from localhost [127.0.0.1]
No changes were made to eximconfig or fetchmailrc between the last successful transfer (yesterday morning) and the start of all this confusion, 25 minutes later.
I am able to send without any problems. I can also use sylpheed (as with this message) to send and receive, so I do not think the problem is with my ISP.
ifconfig shows lo up.
Any ideas would be gratefully received.
TIA
Cam
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