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

On Friday 05 November 2021 17:22:48 Gene Heskett wrote:

> 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.
And it didn't take long to get a replay.

This is the message in its entirety from a kmail v entry:
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From gene  Fri Nov  5 11:40:31 2021
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from imap.shentel.mail2world.com [209.67.128.65]
	by coyote.coyote.den with IMAP (fetchmail-6.5.0.beta6)
	for <gene@localhost> (single-drop); Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:40:31 -0400 
(EDT)
Received: from 216.163.176.191 unverified ([216.163.176.191]) by 
mwpop05oc.mail2world.com with Mail2World SMTP Server; 
	Fri, 05 Nov 2021 03:54:12 -0700
Received: from [82.195.75.100] (port=39482 helo=bendel.debian.org)
	by prd-mail2world-inbound-ash1-025.ash1.cynet with esmtps  (TLS1.2) tls 
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
	(Exim 4.94)
	(envelope-from 
<[email protected]>)
	id 1miwpT-000Xrv-1k
	for [email protected]; Fri, 05 Nov 2021 10:52:15 +0000
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by bendel.debian.org (Postfix) with QMQP
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10:52:08 2021
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str=0001.0A742F19.61850CDF.000A:SCGSTAT2751311,ss=1,re=-4.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=1024
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And this is the corresponding log:
But its not, with the -vv, its not reporting a Query status=7, just a 1 
now,=no mail but mail has stopped again. I'll log into webmail and see. 
Humm, no mail. None of those ipv4 addresses above are me. I should be 
that from the web link in the sig.

So the above copy/paste from a kmail v, must have arrived while I was 
checking this at about 11 something local time this morning. 2 of them 
before I killed the original at imap.shentel.net.

I must be confused. Or oldtimers has set in.  Since I'm now 87, I suppose 
its a possibility.

> 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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