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

On Friday 05 November 2021 17:05:16 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 05.11.21 um 21:57 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > 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?
>
> On the command line, you can't use it from .fetchmailrc.
>
Done, is positively a blabbermouth now. Now we wait for the next screwup. 
Might be a year...

Thanks Mathias.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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