On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:39:57 -0700 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 08:19 -0600, 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. > ---- > Indeed - looked at fetchmail list and your comments were indeed there. > Appears I share problem of ISP which accepts email without discretion > as to whether they comply with rfc's and I have to clean up the mess > afterwards ;-( > > I suppose that I can login to IMAP server via telnet and do something > like a delete all once a month - have to learn IMAP commands... > You may be able to delete the offending emails with mailfilter: http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net Although it's an anti-spam tool, you can certainly run it as a standalone once a month to delete mails. The main thing is that you have to be able to identify what the offending header looks like - once you do that, it's very easy. cheers, Robert
