I have had fetchmail hang on 3 messages on 2 different servers recently. I
tried versions fetchmail-5.8.5 and fetchmail-5.6.0 and it failed on
both. However, it worked on my old system running 5.2.0.
The system it failed on is a new redhat 7.1 system, with fetchmail loaded
from the rpm's.
It works with version 5.2.0 on an old system running Caldera ed2.4 (Linux
2.2.14)
All the failures occurred with large files (>50 k) with Word attachments.
Here are the options :
Options for retrieving from aja21872(_at_)mail(_dot_)dns-host(_dot_)com:
True name of server is mail.dns-host.com.
Protocol is POP3.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Here is the session (slightly edited for brevity):
bash-2.04$ fetchmail -v -v
fetchmail: 5.8.5 querying mail.dns-host.com (protocol POP3) at Tue, 19 Jun 2001
19:20:37 -0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK DPOP Version 2.7u.
<19503(_dot_)992996272(_at_)vega(_dot_)dns-host(_dot_)com>
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Invalid command not logged in
fetchmail: Invalid command not logged in
fetchmail: POP3> USER aja21872
fetchmail: POP3< +OK aja21872 nice to hear from you - password required
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK aja21872 has 29 mail messages
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 29 190309
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
29 messages for aja21872 at mail.dns-host.com (190309 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 29 (190309)
fetchmail: POP3< 1 68924 0
fetchmail: POP3< 2 3099 0
fetchmail: POP3< 3 4478 0
fetchmail: POP3< 4 4826 0
....snip.....
fetchmail: POP3< 28 3083 0
fetchmail: POP3< 29 2759 0
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 68924 octets
reading message 1 of 29 (68924 octets)
About to rewrite From: "Eleanor Sheldon" <ess(_at_)neosoft(_dot_)com>
Rewritten version is From: "Eleanor Sheldon" <ess(_at_)neosoft(_dot_)com>
About to rewrite To: "Ruth Witten" <ruthwitten(_at_)aol(_dot_)com>, "Lauren
Alexander" <lma(_at_)pdq(_dot_)net>,
"Susan Jackson" <Sjack1957(_at_)aol(_dot_)com>,
"Alan Jackson" <alan(_at_)ajackson(_dot_)org>
Rewritten version is To: "Ruth Witten" <ruthwitten(_at_)aol(_dot_)com>, "Lauren
Alexander" <lma(_at_)pdq(_dot_)net>,
"Susan Jackson" <Sjack1957(_at_)aol(_dot_)com>,
"Alan Jackson" <alan(_at_)ajackson(_dot_)org>
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 earthman.oplnk.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2; Tue, 19
Jun 2001 19:20:43 -0500
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-earthman.oplnk.net Hello localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-DSN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ONEX
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-XUSR
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<ess(_at_)neosoft(_dot_)com> SIZE=68924
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0 <ess(_at_)neosoft(_dot_)com>... Sender ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<ajackson(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <ajackson(_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 synchronization error while fetching from
mail.dns-host.com
fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
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