On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:26 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Mike Klinke wrote: > > On Friday 18 February 2005 01:20, Craig White wrote: > > > >>I just manually cleaned off 460+ emails from my ISP's mailbox > >>that I 'fetch' mail from. > >> > >>they were logging in my fetchmail log as... > >> > >>fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers > >> > > > > > > I first noticed this behavior back in May of 2003. A change was made > > at this point to "bullet proof" the header-to-body detection code > > and the end result forces those messages with a defective header to > > be retained on the server. Versions of fetchmail prior ot 6.1.3 > > didn't exhibit this behavior. There was a patch released to > > address this problem by one of the maintainers but it was shortly > > after that time that I no longer needed fetchmail on any of my > > systems; well, until this week ... and I'm now seeing the same > > problem again that you describe on one test box here. If you look > > at the fetchmail archives you should see a bit of discussion on > > this topic. There was also a bit of discussion on the Redhat-List > > around that time. > > A possible workaround might be to try "getmail" instead of "fetchmail"; > I have RPMs for getmail at: http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/mail/ --- probably more than a possible workaround - I may take you on that offer but for now, I'll fool with it some more. Thanks Craig
