Re: sometime in the night, fetchmail 6.5.0beta6 heard a bump

On Friday 05 November 2021 14:14:32 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 05.11.21 um 17:52 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > Greetings Mathias;
> >
> > The bump was a msg that landed in the inbox at imap.shentel.net. no
> > subject, no body, no from address, from the debian listmail server.
> > at about 6:53 EDT.
> >
> > That convinced fetchmail it had an error 7, and exited that
> > invocation without fetching any more msgs.  Wash, rinse and repeat
> > at 2 minute intervals till shentel and I figured it out a few
> > seconds after the log entry below.
> >
> > log looked like this:
> >
> > ov 05 11:42:32 fetchmail: 54 messages for [email protected] at
> > imap.shentel.net. Nov 05 11:42:33 fetchmail: reading message
> > [email protected]@imap.shentel.mail2world.com:1 of 54 (2182
> > header octets) (log message incomplete)
> > Nov 05 11:42:33 fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while
> > fetching from [email protected]@imap.shentel.net Nov 05 11:42:33
> > fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
> >
> > I finally logged into the webmail, saw that funky msg and deleted
> > it, which unplugged the drain  and it fetched the other 53 msgs ok.
> >
> > Unforch the log is all I could salvage. Is this helpfull?
>
> Hi Gene,
>
> thanks for the report. Unfortunately, this log does not suffice to
> check where fetchmail failed - I would need to see a verbose log with
> at least one -v (or possibly -vv if you can spare the disk logging
> space).
>
That -vv I assume goes in my user .fetchmailrc?

> I know fetchmail lacks some parser support for edge cases like yours.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias
>
>
>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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