FAQ # I8 says:
"Stock fetchmail will work with a comcast.net server...but they seem to
have an 80K limit on the length of downloaded messages. Anything larger
is silently truncated. Don't mistake this for a fetchmail bug."
I have found a workaround to this issue that may work for some people -
it works for me. I added fetchall to my .fetchmailrc and this works
around the problem. Interactively, fetchmail -a also works.
Since this gets all the messages, obviously it's more useful for people
who never store their mail on their pop server for any period of time,
but I would expect that most comcast/fetchmail users are like me - the
mail gets delivered to comcast.net mostly for convenience (they do run
Brightmail), but we like to read our mail from our local *nix systems.
[ewilts(_at_)pe400 ~]$ fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 6.2.5+IMAP-GSS+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+INET6+NLS
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux pe400.ewilts.home 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL #1 Thu Oct 27 13:20:09 EDT 2005
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Whether or not it's a fetchmail bug or a bug on comcast's server I'll let
people smarter than me decide.
I hope this help somebody else or pops up in a searchable archive
somewhere.
Cheers,
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts(_at_)ewilts(_dot_)org
Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
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