Hi,
I think I found some kind of bug in fetchmail.
My fetchmail collects mail from various servers and then delivers it to the
local sendmail process. This process uses some virus scanners and filters
incoming mail, so it sometimes needs a while to deliver the message, expecially
when the server is under heavy load. The Problem is now the timeout of one of
my mailboxes. The POP3 Server closes the connection before the mail is locally
delivered. In this case the mail is not deleted from the POP3 server, and when
running the next time, the mail is fetched and locally delivered again. (This
resulted in a really big mailbox here, since fetchmail was fetching a 600kB
mail every 10 mins over the night*g*)
I am using Linux with 2.4.16 kernel, compiled with gcc 2.95.3, main parts of
system are from SuSE 7.2
Greeting line of the POP3 server I fetched the mail from
+OK GMX POP3 StreamProxy ready
forwarded locally to sendmail 8.11.3
regards
Dennis Lubert
PS: I can't find an option to replace FETCHMAIL-DAEMON@ to what I want in the
mails fetchmail sends when delivery fails...