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Re: [fetchmail]Oversized messages

2004-11-19 05:26:17
* Neil Williams <neil(_at_)publicus(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> [2004-11-19 10:16 +0000]:

Dear Fetchmail-friends

I have been actively using fetchmail for the past few months and am very 
happy with it except for one thing which I will explain below after I 
have described my setup.

I have release 6.2.1+POP2+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS. My server sits at 
the end of an ADSL line. I fetch mail from a POP3 box and my ISP and it 
ends up in a Cyrus IMAP folder.

I have 6.2.5 (Slackware 10.0), and fetch multiple POP3's to be delivered by
procmail.

I run fetchmail in daemon mode:

# fetchmail --limit 50000 -d 240

I set up the size limit because I recently received a message (wrongly 
addressed) with a 5M attachment:-(

Your new limit will also stop most worms. And many newsletters.

All works fine except for the oversized email notices. I do get some 
notices but these are erratic (they seem to stop after a fetchmail has 
been running for a little while).

I have this problem also. I have 'warnings 3600' in my fetchmailrc, but I
only seem to receive the warnings when I restart fetchmail (usually when my
dialup disconnects).

Also, the only useful information 
logged in the notices are the size and number of oversized messages.

Yeah, it would be nice if it told you the account name as well as the
server.

Finally, I haven't worked out if their is a user command which will 
allow me to fetch the oversized messages but keep the daemon running.

I'd like to know this too. I currently use a script to stop the daemon,
download with no limit and restart the daemon.

Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.

No help sorry, just verification.
-- 
Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzche

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