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Quoting from Damien Dye's mail on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:25:12PM -0000:
If you look at the RFC822.SIZE response, you will notice that all the
numbers are multiples of 1024. So, the problem is in the server
response which is not reporting the exact size.
As such, there is no truncation.
So how do I get round there server not being able to do math?
boy the uni will not be pleased to here there expensive server can't do
math.
There is no way to do that.
Does this socket problem occur on every connection? Does it always
occur after the first mail? Does it always occur for the same mail? It
may be a problem not related to fetchmail.
I occurs after the first email collected each time.
Any ideas is there some hack out there to fix it. or is it there server ?
(there is going to be a long bug report for them to read over at this rate
because both pop3 and imap have problems with wrong mail size, pop3 mail
content disappers, imap has broken sockets.)
fetchmail does not have a problem with wrong mail size, it is only
reporting a warning.
Try polling with a high expunge and a fetchlimit = expunge.
Something like:
$ fetchmail -e 10 -B 10 -vv [ other usual options, if any ]
If this works fine (exactly 10 mails get downloaded), then the problem
is definitely with the server as it may not be following the IMAP
protocol!
You may then increase the above number. If you make it too high, you
may have problems with duplicate mails after a broken connection.
Please report success or failure to the mailing list.
Sunil Shetye.