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[fetchmail] SIGPIPE on an extraordinarily big e-mail

2002-10-25 08:44:47
 
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Hello friends,

        I've been using fetchmail in a very basic way for many years.  I've
come across a problem, though, that I can't seem to solve.  I have a
user on my box who has an e-mail on a remote site queue, that's
40087149 octets (Yeah, that's right, 40,087,149 octets).  I don't
know how this e-mail even managed to pass through the remote sender's
local server, or even get to the remote site queue without being
bounced! 

        My problem is, fetchmail SIGPIPE's on the e-mail.  Attached is the
user's .fetchmailrc and the log from the command 'fetchmail -v -l 0'.
 As I look into this problem more, I'm starting to wonder wether or
not it's a problem with fetchmail at all.  However, exim reports no
errors!  

I've also noticed that the problem happens after the second e-mail in
the inbox is gotten.  What makes this weird is that the first e-mail
is never received, which makes me think that this big e-mail is the
culprit.

It's very strange.

If anyone can help me out, I'd sure appreciate it.

Peter Grace

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User's fetchmailrc:

poll remote.queue.com proto pop3
   user "username", with password "password", is "cgrace(_at_)rttx(_dot_)com"
here;

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The errorlog:

fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 40087149 octets
reading message username(_at_)mail1(_dot_)netreach(_dot_)net:1 of 3 (40087149 
octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 rttx.com ESMTP Exim 4.10 Fri, 25 Oct 2002
10:51:00 -0400
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-rttx.com Hello username at localhost [127.0.0.1]
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
<snip>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Accepted
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by
itself
fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 2 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 45753 octets
reading message username(_at_)mail1(_dot_)netreach(_dot_)net:2 of 3 (45753 
octets)
fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
fetchmail: 6.1.1 querying mail1.netreach.net (protocol POP3) at Fri
Oct 25 11:0$
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2

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