Hi,
Sometimes when I shall download a lot of mails from one server,
fetchmail gives the message:
"couldn't fetch headers". This happens when I try to download more than
about 100 mails, and can happen halfway through. What does this message
mean, and what can be done to avoid losing the mails?
TIA,
- Jostein
fetchmail -version
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux jostein 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:19:15 UTC 2002 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /home/jostein/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /home/jostein/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to jostein.
Options for retrieving from jostber(_at_)pop(_dot_)frisurf(_dot_)no:
True name of server is pop.frisurf.no.
Protocol is POP3.
All available authentication methods will be tried.
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)
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Options for retrieving from s059474(_at_)pop(_dot_)sensewave(_dot_)com:
True name of server is pop.sensewave.com.
Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
All messages will be retrieved (--all on).
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)
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Output fetchmail-vv
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3303 octets follow.
reading message s059474(_at_)mailfront(_dot_)server(_dot_)freewave(_dot_)no:3
of 3 (3303
octets)
About to rewrite Return-Path: <ruby-talk-admin(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org>
Rewritten version is Return-Path: <ruby-talk-admin(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org>
About to rewrite From: Weng Lei-QCH1840 <LeiWENG(_at_)motorola(_dot_)com>
Rewritten version is From: Weng Lei-QCH1840 <LeiWENG(_at_)motorola(_dot_)com>
About to rewrite Reply-To: ruby-talk(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org
Rewritten version is Reply-To: ruby-talk(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org
About to rewrite To: ruby-talk(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org (ruby-talk ML)
Rewritten version is To: ruby-talk(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org (ruby-talk ML)
fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<ruby-talk-admin(_at_)ruby-lang(_dot_)org> SIZE=3303
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<jostein(_at_)localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
#************************************fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok: queued as CB7C417146
flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 3
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Deleted.
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Bye-bye.
fetchmail: 6.1.3 querying pop.sensewave.com (protocol POP3) at Fri Mar
28 09:10:36 2003: poll completed
New UID list from pop.sensewave.com: <empty>
fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 Bye
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
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Jostein Berntsen <jostein(_dot_)berntsen(_at_)sensewave(_dot_)com>