Tom Emerson wrote:
[...]
[raising hand] yeah, I'm one of them :)
Thought that there might be some :-)
[...]
same boat here again. If the implication above is that the folks who
maintain
fetchmail have actually /done/ something about this particular problem,
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let me know if this works for you. Although I've
had
this problem for over a year, I've installed fetchmail in a "fire and
forget"
mode [meaning that when I asked this same question last year and the
"use
antispam" suggestion didn't work either, I pretty much gave up on this
since
the incidence rate also dropped to zero anyway. Unfortunately, these
seem to
have started up again and now I usually run into this problem two or
three
times a week]
As far as I could tell fetchmail 6.2.5 was released sometime in Oct. 2003...
Anyways, it works like a charm now - at least I have not noticed any
oddities since then.
I have tried the test case email from my original post and it worked as
expected.
Teaches me once again not to rely on the update mechanisms of SuSE :-(
It isn't necessarily that SuSE doesn't update properly, but more likely
that
the folks at SuSE haven't actually built up "the latest" and included it
in
their distro [even though "the latest" may work perfectly fine] Please
realize that SuSE distributes HUNDREDS (thousands?) of programs [same is
true
of any distribution for that matter] and unless someone who works for
SuSE is
directly affected by any given problem, chances are that the version of
any
given program that gets included is "a few revs back" :)
That's what I meant wit "propably a problem of all distros". I am
generally quite content with the update service, since i don't have to
worry *much* about security issues. What I meant was rather if you are
up-to-date and things still go wrong, you need to grab the latest
sources and recompile. Surely you cannot expect from any distro
maintainer to check the dependencies of every package when doinng a
version upgrade - but on the other hand fetchmail is a very popular
program and would imho deserves better coverage than other packages.
Hmmm... I just checked the latest SuSE distro and they ship with 6.2.5 -
so it just did not make it in the updates for the older (but still
supported) distros.
( Answers to this last part to me personally - no need to clutter the
fetchmail list with a distro flamewar ;-) )
Cheers,
Tobias