On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:52:56 -0700 Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 14:31 +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:20 -0700, 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 > > Same here. After each fetchmail-run (which fetches the legit mails and > > leaves some rubbish behind), I run a small script which telnets into the > > POP3 account and deletes all remaining mail @ the ISP. I'm assuming here > > that the badly formatted mails are spam anyhow. > ---- > can I look at the script - I only need the part after the login - I > simply don't know the commands to speak IMAP once I am logged in and > searches on the internet have been fairly unclear. In my case, they > indeed were all spam that I deleted. and since I started this thread a > few days ago, there are now 8 of them already. > > It appears that they have a null character in the header which fetchmail > must not like and from Mike Klimke's explanation and going back through > the email exchange, it appears that my ISP's smtp server is rather > liberal (some might say broken) in what it accepts for email. > > Craig > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list As an added note, you shouldn't need to write a script to erase your email from your isp. Put expunge 1 in your .fetchmailrc file. That will erase the mail for each message received. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
