I solved my problem with fetchmail/spamassassin. It seems spamassassin
needs to be run as a daemon or it will take too much time for sendmail.
I still have a problem with certain messages being left in the pop3
mailbox and getting retrieved over and over. I've noticed that my ISPs
pop3 server only allows a short period of having the mailbox open before
closing. This causes problems with Pine which seems to expect the pop3
mailbox to stay open util pine closes it. Mutt however detects when the
mailbox has closed, saves the state, and reopens the mailbox. I am
wondering if this may point to the cause of the remaining messages staying
on the server. i.e. the server closes before fetchmail gets all the
messages. However the problem with this theory is that it always seems to
be the same messages that get left.
I am sorry if I am getting a little off-topic, but I have a question. I
am looking at my maillog and trying to find the offending messages to see
what the problem might be with them. For example here is a snippit from my
maillog:
Aug 5 06:37:33 pc1 fetchmail[1879]: reading message
heitkamp(_at_)mailhost(_dot_)day(_dot_)ameritech(_dot_)net:111 of 131 (3714 octets)
Aug 5 05:37:33 pc1 sm-mta[2073]: i75ATBNv002073:
from=<deleted>,
size=3821, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<001601c47a94$2d7afd80$d53f1f41(_at_)Craw>,
bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1]
Aug 5 05:37:37 pc1 spamd[1677]: connection from localhost.localdomain
[127.0.0.1] at port 33128
Aug 5 05:37:37 pc1 spamd[2541]: info: setuid to heitkamp succeeded
Aug 5 05:37:37 pc1 spamd[2541]: processing message
<001601c47a94$2d7afd80$d53f1f41(_at_)Craw> for heitkamp:1001.
Aug 5 06:37:43 pc1 fetchmail[1879]: not flushed
This message will keep showing up until I use some other program to delete
it manually from my pop3 mailbox. Can someone point me to a FAQ or source
where I can get some hints why fetchmail does not like to flush this
message after retrieving it even though I tell it to flush in my
fetchmailrc file and the majority of the messages do get flushed. When I
look at the message I see nothing unusual about it.
This is what the message looks like with personal stuff removed:
From <deleted> Thu Aug 5 08:22:07 2004
Received: from mx1-milwwi.milwwi.ameritech.net by mailapps2 with SMTP;
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:32:57 -0400
X-Originating-IP: [65.24.5.137]
Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com
(ms-smtp-03-smtplb.ohiordc.rr.com
[65.24.5.137])
by mx1-milwwi.milwwi.ameritech.net (8.12.10 inb shim/8.12.10) with
ESMTP id
i752Wr91007624;
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 21:32:54 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from <deleted>
by ms-smtp-03-eri0.ohiordc.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with SMTP id
i752UJVd001387;
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:30:19 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <001601c47a94$2d7afd80$d53f1f41(_at_)Craw>
Subject: Friday Evening - August 6, 2004
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:30:20 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine
<personal message deleted>
~
^^^
not sure where that tilde came from.
Fred
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You must reinstall Windows.