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RE: [fetchmail] SIGPIPE on an extraordinarily big e-mail

2002-10-25 09:49:42
 
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Rob,

        Sorry about that!  I'm running on Linux 2.4.19, modified debian. 
I've since done some futzing around and I found out that the two
e-mails after the extremely large one had periods on a blank line.  I
think that was causing the actual SIGPIPE..  

        Now, that big e-mail still remained after I deleted the munged
e-mails.  Even while calling -l 0, I think that fetchmail was passing
an error 13 back (which in the documentation shows it as being an
over-limit attachment).  Is there something in the code that makes it
so a single e-mail read cannot be bigger than X size, no matter what
the user puts in --limit?

Pete

<snip>

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.

Ok, the logs say you're running 6.1.1, but on what OS?

I've certainly downloaded 20 MB+ emails using fetchmail so I'd be
surprised 
if that's the problem.  However anybody emailing stuff that large
should IMO 
be using some other method of file transfer!

fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

Take a look at the log from your mail server, it looks like something
downstream (your mail server of the delivery agent) had problems.



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