Re: retrieval error (offered message xyz but failed to provide it)

Saša Janiška <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:52:12 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 09:44:21 -0600
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Charles,

thank you for your reply. I'm troubleshooting the issue with a support
stuff. Yesterday I was not able to re-create the problem, but today 
it reappeared...

> It's not a getmail bug; as the error message says, it's a problem with the
> mail server.  Notify the administrator of the mailserver for help.

Here is the console log snippet just around when the bug triggers...

[...]
msg  32/287 (2555 bytes) delivered
msg  33/287 (82251 bytes) delivered
Retrieval error: server for
SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:[email protected]:993 is
broken; offered message 1448439752/1457 but failed to provide it.
Please notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message...
Retrieval error: server for
SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever:[email protected]:993 is
broken; offered message 1448439752/1458 but failed to provide it.
Please notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message...

and at the same time I see the following in getmail's message.log:

[...]
2018-09-24 09:26:10 msg 33/287 (82251 bytes) msgid 1448439752/1456 from
<unknown> delivered to MDA_external command maildrop ()
2018-09-24 09:26:11 protocol error (socket error: [SSL: BAD_LENGTH] bad
length (_ssl.c:1824))
2018-09-24 09:26:11   33 messages (2322122 bytes) retrieved, 0 skipped

Do you have any helpful advice which I can forward to the support stuff
about the problem of the Dovecot IMAP server involved?

Sincerely,
Gour

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