On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:00:08 -0500 Lou Losee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]