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Re: Fetchmail Query



On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:00:08 -0500
Lou Losee <llosee@hvc.rr.com> wrote:


> Dont know if this is the right solution for you, however, I have in the
> past had problems with fetchmail refusing to fetch a msg from my ISP due to what it deemed to be incorrect headers.
> 
> When this occurs, I manually delete it using a telnet session.  The port for POP is 110, so the basic flow is something like this.
> 
> telnet my.isp.pop-server 110
> trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> connected to my.isp.pop-server
> escape character is '^]'
> +OK
> USER myid
> +OK
> PASS secret
> +OK
> STAT
> +OK 0 0
> LIST x             <---  where x is the message number
> RETR x             <---  try to look at the message
> DELE x             <---  to delete the message
> QUIT
> 
> HTH
> Lou
> 
Hi Lou, I've also used this method in the past, although I do it slightly differently.

I do a "top x 10" after the list to get a preview and determine if it's spam or a virus or whatever, then do a dele.

In this particular case, I have done that to see what the message is, and it's spam, but I as the machine fetchmail/sendmail/etc. is on is my home mail server, I want it to get rid of these things without my intervention.

Thanks for your tip anyway though, somebody else may not have known this  :-)

Pete



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