diff -u fetchmail-6.2.2/transact.c fetchmail-6.2.2-bcl/transact.c
--- fetchmail-6.2.2/transact.c	Fri Feb 28 18:14:42 2003
+++ fetchmail-6.2.2-bcl/transact.c	Tue Jun 10 07:15:28 2003
@@ -511,6 +511,19 @@
 	     * line before the body! Without this check fetchmail segfaults.
 	     * With it, we treat such messages as though they had the missing
 	     * blank line.
+             *
+             * 06/09/2003   The problem with leaving the message on the server
+             * bcl          is that you end up transferring them over and
+             *              over again, eating up huge amounts of time and
+             *              bandwidth, and you have to go and manually
+             *              delete them -- which is not acceptable in large
+             *              installations.
+             *              I have modified this to act as if it had found
+             *              the blank after the headers, and to continue
+             *              on and pass it to the local MTA.
+             *              NOTE: This works for me. I do not use many of the
+             *              advanced features, so I may be breaking something
+             *              else (I only use pop3 with SSL encryption).
 	     */
 	    if (!isspace(line[0]) && !strchr(line, ':'))
 	    {
@@ -519,7 +532,13 @@
 		if (outlevel > O_SILENT)
 		    report(stdout,
 			   GT_("incorrect header line found while scanning headers\n"));
-		retain_mail = 1;
+
+/* [bcl] hack to get it to download broken messages */
+/*		retain_mail = 1; */
+		headers_ok = TRUE;
+		has_nuls = (linelen != strlen(line));
+		free(line);
+		goto process_headers;
 	    }
 
 	    /* check for RFC822 continuations */