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Re: Fetchmail errors



On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 05:59:19PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> So are the e-mails that are being reported NOT being retrieved?

Those messages are retrieved by fetchmail and passed to your MTA.  While
processing the message, your MTA finds a syntax error in the headers,
and passes fetchmail an error code.  The MTA does not forward on the
message.  fetchmail sees the error and as the message was not
successfully delivered, it does not delete the message from the POP3
server.  Consequently, fetchmail reattempts the delivery of those
messages on subsequent runs, until the message is removed, or the
condition that caused the error is rectified.

PS: don't toppost

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Seneca
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