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[fetchmail]MS Exchange 2000 issues?

2001-04-23 11:21:10
Over the weekend my company's mail server got upgraded to Exchange
2000 and now fetchmail is not working properly. 

I had been running version 5.0, but fetched and compiled 
5.8.0 today to see if that fixed things. I tried configuring
with and without --enable-NTLM without any change in behaviour.
(For what it is worth, the last mail server was an earlier
version of Exchange.)

Here is what's happening as seen by 'fetchmail -v':

...
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 38
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 39 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
reading message 39 of 518 (3465 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<me(_at_)www(_dot_)site(_dot_)com> SIZE=3465
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <me(_at_)www(_dot_)site(_dot_)com>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<me(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <me(_at_)localhost>... Recipient ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
#***********.*********************************.********************fetchmail:
timeout after 300 seconds.
fetchmail: client/server syncronization error while fetching from exch2-gnsr...
fetchmail: Query status=7
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: normal termination, status 7

Thing is, this happens every time on the same message: this leads me to
think it is not any sort of networking problem, as the FAQ would have me
believe for time-outs. Another thing is, this is the third such mail
message causing this breakage. The first two I deleted by manually 
telneting to the pop-3 port and issuing 'DELE' commands. The first
two were from the same person, and sent to the same mailing list, so
I was thinking it might be something odd that guy was doing. But with
this, I don't think that is the case.

Here are two transcripts of me deleting the other two messages:

$ telnet exch2-gnsr.internal pop-3
Trying 172.24.1.12...
Connected to exch2-gnsr.internal.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Microsoft Exchange 2000 POP3 server version 6.0.4417.0 
(exchange2000.internal) ready.
user me
+OK
pass XXXXXXX
+OK User successfully logged on.
TOP 2 999999999
+OK
Received: from mail.internal ([10.10.10.31]) by exchange2000.internal with 
Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.1600);
         Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:49:13 -0700
Received: from h31.sny.collab.net ([64.208.42.41] helo=apache.org)
        by mail.internal with smtp (Exim 3.21 #1)
        id 14qkWh-0002q1-00
        for me(_at_)site(_dot_)com; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:41:23 -0700
Received: (qmail 18034 invoked by uid 500); 20 Apr 2001 23:41:54 -0000
Mailing-List: contact modperl-help(_at_)apache(_dot_)org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
list-help: <mailto:modperl-help(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
list-unsubscribe: <mailto:modperl-unsubscribe(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
list-post: <mailto:modperl(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
Delivered-To: mailing list modperl(_at_)apache(_dot_)org
Received: (qmail 17951 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2001 23:41:51 -0000
Message-ID: 
<987808987(_dot_)3ae0c4dbecd20(_at_)demo(_dot_)uk(_dot_)horde(_dot_)org>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:23:07 +0000
From: f(_dot_)pasqualini(_at_)cpsinformatica(_dot_)it
To: Joshua Chamas <joshua(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com>
Cc: modperl(_at_)apache(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: modperl/ASP and  MVC design pattern
References: <001801c0c9a0$0706a440$5000a8c0(_at_)cpsinformatica(_dot_)it> 
<3AE098CE(_dot_)578956EF(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com>
In-Reply-To: <3AE098CE(_dot_)578956EF(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs
X-Originating-IP: 151.15.0.126
X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N
Return-Path: modperl-return-15913-me=site(_dot_)com(_at_)apache(_dot_)org
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Apr 2001 23:49:13.0859 (UTC) 
FILETIME=[80ECF530:01C0C9F4]

Quoting Joshua Chamas <joshua(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com>:

[message body]

-----------------------------------------------------------
This mail sent through the IMP demo site: demo.horde.org
     Find out more at http://www.horde.org/imp/.
dele 2
+OK
expunge
-ERR Protocol error.
quit
+OK Microsoft Exchange 2000 POP3 server version 6.0.4417.0 signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
$

$ telnet exch2-gnsr.internal pop-3
Trying 172.24.1.12...
Connected to exch2-gnsr.internal.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK Microsoft Exchange 2000 POP3 server version 6.0.4417.0 
(exchange2000.internal) ready.
user me
+OK
pass XXXXXXX
+OK User successfully logged on.
top 18 99999999
+OK
Received: from mail.internal ([10.10.10.31]) by exchange2000.internal with 
Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.1600);
         Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:43:29 -0700
Received: from h31.sny.collab.net ([64.208.42.41] helo=apache.org)
        by mail.internal with smtp (Exim 3.21 #1)
        id 14qrvd-0004HN-00
        for me(_at_)site(_dot_)com; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:35:37 -0700
Received: (qmail 91048 invoked by uid 500); 21 Apr 2001 07:36:04 -0000
Mailing-List: contact modperl-help(_at_)apache(_dot_)org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
list-help: <mailto:modperl-help(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
list-unsubscribe: <mailto:modperl-unsubscribe(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
list-post: <mailto:modperl(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
Delivered-To: mailing list modperl(_at_)apache(_dot_)org
Received: (qmail 91036 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2001 07:36:03 -0000
Message-ID: <001301c0ca35$a9ac6960$5000a8c0(_at_)cpsinformatica(_dot_)it>
From: "Francesco Pasqualini" <f(_dot_)pasqualini(_at_)cpsinformatica(_dot_)it>
To: "Joshua Chamas" <joshua(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com>
Cc: <modperl(_at_)apache(_dot_)org>
References: <001801c0c9a0$0706a440$5000a8c0(_at_)cpsinformatica(_dot_)it> 
<3AE098CE(_dot_)578956EF(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com> 
<987808987(_dot_)3ae0c4dbecd20(_at_)demo(_dot_)uk(_dot_)horde(_dot_)org> 
<3AE0E85C(_dot_)4B0CA2CF(_at_)chamas(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: modperl/ASP and  MVC design pattern
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:35:38 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N
Return-Path: modperl-return-15916-me=site(_dot_)com(_at_)apache(_dot_)org
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Apr 2001 07:43:29.0218 (UTC) 
FILETIME=[C1A42A20:01C0CA36]

----- Original Message -----

[message body]

the file executing midstream.

--Josh

.
dele 18
+OK
quit
+OK Microsoft Exchange 2000 POP3 server version 6.0.4417.0 signing off.
Connection closed by foreign host.
$


I noticed with the first messsage that the terminating '.' was on the
last line of the .sig, which made me suspicious about mail without
final newlines, but the second message does not appear to have that
problem.

The really annoying thing is I have more than 500 messages waiting
to be downloaded off the server, and the deletes don't seem to do
anything without the 'QUIT's, which are not sent when fetchmail
times out, so I keep downloading the same mail over and over.

So, has anyone seen this problem? Any clues about what to do?

Elijah


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