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[fetchmail]Unwanted "retained"

2005-11-21 20:40:23
This afternoon, when fetching mail from one of my mailboxes, I started to
get the notice "reading message 1 of xx (521 octets) fetchmail:
retained".
It's always the first message and always the same size.  All other
messages are "flushed" as desired.

fetchmail -v reports:

fetchmail: 5.7.4 querying mail.paxp.com (protocol POP3) at Mon Nov 21
22:27:23 2005
fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version 2.53) at raq2.paxp.com starting.
fetchmail: POP3> USER fleet0
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for fleet0.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK fleet0 has 1 message (521 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 521
1 message for fleet0 at mail.paxp.com (521 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 messages (521 octets)
fetchmail: POP3< 1 521
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 521 octets
reading message 1 of 1 (521 octets)
fetchmail:  retained
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT

My .fetchmailrc command line:

poll mail.xxxx.com protocol pop3 username "fleet0" password "password"
fetchall

Some (possibly significant) background.

Earlier today this mailbox failed on one message with "segmentation
fault."  Since I couldn't get past this message using fetchmail, I went to
a webmail server and logged on.  Removed all messages (all were spam
anyway) using the "delete" "are you sure" "yes" options.

This "retained" information started the next time I used fetchmail to get
mail from this server - a few minutes after I logged off the webmail
server.

Any clue as to what is happening and how I can get rid of this thing - or
do I just need to ignore it?

I retrieve mail from three other mailboxes (two on the same server, one on
my ISP) with no problem.

I've been using fetchmail for 6 or 7 (or more) years.  It's a great
program.

                                - fleet -


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