diff -Naur fetchmail-6.2.2.orig/driver.c fetchmail-6.2.2/driver.c
--- fetchmail-6.2.2.orig/driver.c	2003-02-28 16:23:57.000000000 +0530
+++ fetchmail-6.2.2/driver.c	2003-06-02 18:35:13.000000000 +0530
@@ -428,7 +428,10 @@
 	if (msgcodes[num-1] < 0)
 	{
 	    if ((msgcodes[num-1] == MSGLEN_TOOLARGE) && !check_only)
+	    {
 		mark_oversized(ctl, num, msgsizes[num-1]);
+		suppress_delete = TRUE;
+	    }
   		/* To avoid flooding the syslog when using --keep,
   		 * report "Skipped message" only when:
   		 *  1) --verbose is on, or
@@ -675,7 +678,8 @@
 	}
 	else if (ctl->server.base_protocol->delete
 		 && !suppress_delete
-		 && ((msgcodes[num-1] >= 0) ? !ctl->keep : ctl->flush))
+		 && ((msgcodes[num-1] >= 0 && !ctl->keep)
+		     || (msgcodes[num-1] == MSGLEN_OLD && ctl->flush)))
 	{
 	    (*deletions)++;
 	    if (outlevel > O_SILENT)