Re: Strange fetchmail behaviour
Mark,
I dont have a solution for you, but another symptom. Sometimes
when my link goes down in the middle of a download, I get messages that
are tagged as seen on the server, but are not flushed. In order to get
this mail on subsequent downloads, I would have to do 'fetchmail -a'.
During the period when I had the Palm Pilot packages (from source - not
Debian) installed on my system, fetchmail would give me a core dump every
time I tried to download such mail. When I finally removed the Palm Pilot
libraries, the problem went away.
So... maybe the problem is with some exotic libraries present on
your friends system?
Regards,
Jor-el
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> 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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