Strange fetchmail behaviour

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

A friend of mine has a laptop, which I installed debian hamm on for
him.  He says that every time someone sends him a microsoft word
document via email (these are huge files), fetchmail seems to choke on
it.  The strange thing is that I cannot replicate the same problem on
my computer --- fetchmail takes a while to download, but it doesn't
choke.  I can't work out the problem so I was hoping someone here
could help --- or give me some ideas.  Here's an example of the
problem output:

genoa:/home/bill# fetchmail
fetchmail: 2 messages for bill at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au.
fetchmail: reading message 1 of 2 (1367 bytes) . flushed
fetchmail: reading message 2 of 2 (281432 bytes)
...............................................................................
...............................................................................
...............................................................................
......
(log message incomplete)
fetchmail: terminated with signal 13
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/bill


Any ideas?

Mark.





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