I keep getting a dodgy spam email that (according to fetchmail) has a message delimiter inside the headers (full fetchmail output below). Fetchmail simply stops picking up email when this problem message appears and on subsequent runs keeps getting just the headers of this message over and over again. If I removing said mail from my pop3 box manually fetchmail will then resume normal operation.
Its a royal pain in the backside as I can no longer leave the box unattended as I get at least 2 such emails every day. I am calling fetchmail from via a cron job with /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -s -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" using -v in place of -s gives the following [snip......] fetchmail: POP3> RETR 2 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 102684 octets follow. reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.server.com:2 of 26 (102684 octets) fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers #fetchmail: message delimiter found while scanning headers flushed fetchmail: POP3> DELE 2 fetchmail: POP3< fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< --_SAMMY_Mime_002.69356364470 fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from mail.server.com fetchmail: 6.2.3 querying mail.server.com (protocol POP3) at Sun Jan 4 20:26:01 2004: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) fetchmail: normal termination, status 4 (i have replaced my server details with server.com) Help! -- Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
