Hi all,
I have been using fetchmail for so long now and it works perfect, thank
you very much. I'm providing feedback on the problems I got when
configuring it for the first time.
If this problem is already solved, just ignore my mail.
When first configured, I was not getting attachments, this is, they
where missing in the local mailbox.
System: Debian Woody
Fetchmail version: 5.9.11-6.1
I will put only relevant aspects of the log.
with no options, I was getting this:
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 clients that break here, they violate STD53.
fetchmail: POP3< 1 36382
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK headers follow.
...
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
#*fetchmail: message reprogir04(_at_)ya(_dot_)com@pop.ya.com:1 was not the expected
length (2047 actual != 36382 expected)
fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
This is, size is 36382 (because of attachment), but fetchmail uses TOP,
which will only get the message and not attachments. I have looked
around and TOP seems to be considered to do that (so it seems its not
server's fault). So it seems that the correct thing to do is to always RETR.
When adding the "options fetchall" to fetchmailrc, I got this:
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 clients that break here, they violate STD53.
fetchmail: POP3< 1 36406
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 36406 octets follow.
...
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
#****************************************.*************.************************************.************************.*********************.**********.***********.**********.************.**********.***********.**********.***********.**********.***********.**********.**********.**********.**********.***********.***********.**********.**********.***********.**********.***********.***********.**********.***********.***********.***********.***********.***********.***********fetchmail:
SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK id=18xwCp-0000QX-00
This is, I'm now using "options fetchall" for all the accounts to assure
that attachments are retrieved.
I think that this should be done by default, without using "options
fetchall", but correct me if I'm wrong.
Thank you again for this great piece of software.
See you.
--
Manuel Clos
llanero(_at_)eresmas(_dot_)net
http://llanero.eresmas.net