On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 06:59:26 +0530, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sometime back I too had a similar problem. Fetchmail would exit after > downloading about 30 or 40 messages. Worse, when I reconnected, it would > start downloading the whole thing again. I know it is a problem with my > pop provider, but I could not help it. > > Later found that running (as suggested) fetchmail -e 20 (or some number) > would download so many messages, disconnect and reconnect. That can even > be put in your fetchmailrc. I had this problem. my procmailrc specified protocol 'auto'. Changing it to APOP (which was supported) changed fetchmail's behaviour - instead of TOP n 99999999999'ing each message (wtf?) it RETR'd them. This stopped the connection going wrong after a large email. -- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
