fetchmail-users

[fetchmail-users] Fetchmail retrieving message body of only "OK FETCH completed"?

[Beau J. <bj...@ci...>]

I searched but did not find anyone describing this particular symptom.

I've been using fetchmail for several years without problem.

In the past month or so, I've begun to see occasional emails where
the SMTP header is fetched correctly, but the message body is not,
even though they body is just simple plain text.  Instead, I get
the single line:

   A0007 OK FETCH completed.

as the body of the message.  This has happened six times in the past
5 weeks; prior to that, it had not happened for several years.

I have not changed anything in my "fetchmail.rc".  I am using the
fersion of fetchmail currently deployed by our sysadmins, which
looks like it has not change in a long time:

    % ls -lL `which fetchmail`
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root       989472 Jul  2  2003 /usr/bin/fetchmail
    % fetchmail --version | head 1
    This is fetchmail release 6.2.2+NTLM+SSL
    %

Any ideas what might trigger this intermittent but recurring problem?

Any idea how to fix it?

Thanks,

Beau

Beau James
Cisco Systems

P.S. I see from the fetchmail home page that version 6.3.8 is current.
     I'll try to get our sysadmins to upgrade.  But any ideas about
     why this new behavior just cropped up, using the older version,
     would be much appreciated.

Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail retrieving message body of only "OK FETCH completed"?

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 7/23/07, Beau James <bj...@ci...> wrote:
> I searched but did not find anyone describing this particular symptom.
>
> I've been using fetchmail for several years without problem.
>
> In the past month or so, I've begun to see occasional emails where
> the SMTP header is fetched correctly, but the message body is not,
> even though they body is just simple plain text.  Instead, I get
> the single line:
>
>    A0007 OK FETCH completed.
>
> as the body of the message.  This has happened six times in the past
> 5 weeks; prior to that, it had not happened for several years.
>
> I have not changed anything in my "fetchmail.rc".  I am using the
> fersion of fetchmail currently deployed by our sysadmins, which
> looks like it has not change in a long time:

This suggests your ISP has changed something.

> P.S. I see from the fetchmail home page that version 6.3.8 is current.
>      I'll try to get our sysadmins to upgrade.  But any ideas about
>      why this new behavior just cropped up, using the older version,
>      would be much appreciated.

Well, a look at your .fetchmailrc and the output of the diagnostics
command mentioned in the FAQ (under reporting bugs) would help.

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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche

Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail retrieving message body of only "OK FETCH completed"?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Beau James schrieb:
> I searched but did not find anyone describing this particular symptom.
> 
> I've been using fetchmail for several years without problem.
> 
> In the past month or so, I've begun to see occasional emails where
> the SMTP header is fetched correctly, but the message body is not,
> even though they body is just simple plain text.  Instead, I get
> the single line:
> 
>    A0007 OK FETCH completed.
> 
> as the body of the message.  This has happened six times in the past
> 5 weeks; prior to that, it had not happened for several years.
> 
> I have not changed anything in my "fetchmail.rc".  I am using the
> fersion of fetchmail currently deployed by our sysadmins, which
> looks like it has not change in a long time:
> 
>     % ls -lL `which fetchmail`
>     -rwxr-xr-x   1 root       989472 Jul  2  2003 /usr/bin/fetchmail
>     % fetchmail --version | head 1
>     This is fetchmail release 6.2.2+NTLM+SSL
>     %
> 
> Any ideas what might trigger this intermittent but recurring problem?

> P.S. I see from the fetchmail home page that version 6.3.8 is current.
>      I'll try to get our sysadmins to upgrade.  But any ideas about
>      why this new behavior just cropped up, using the older version,
>      would be much appreciated.

ISTR that there have been relevant fixes in 6.3.5, and if you're in need of
arguments for updating, point the admins to CVE-2005-2335, CVE-2005-4348,
CVE-2006-5867 and CVE-2007-1558 (for instance on the fetchmail home page)
-- and incompatibilities are noted in the "NEWS" file as such and are few
and minor, so that virtually everyone can go that migration path.

As a general remark, nobody should be running a decrepit version such as
fetchmail 6.2.2 (four and a half years old!) today, there have been far too
many bugs (important and security bugs among them) fixed since those days.

Best regards
Matthias

Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail retrieving message body of only "OK

[Chris B. <chr...@ov...>]

On Mon 23 Jul, Beau James wrote:
> 
> I searched but did not find anyone describing this particular symptom.
> 
> I've been using fetchmail for several years without problem.
> 
> In the past month or so, I've begun to see occasional emails where
> the SMTP header is fetched correctly, but the message body is not,
> even though they body is just simple plain text.  Instead, I get
> the single line:
> 
>    A0007 OK FETCH completed.
> 
> as the body of the message.  This has happened six times in the past
> 5 weeks; prior to that, it had not happened for several years.
> 
> I have not changed anything in my "fetchmail.rc".  I am using the
> fersion of fetchmail currently deployed by our sysadmins, which
> looks like it has not change in a long time:
> 
>     % ls -lL `which fetchmail`
>     -rwxr-xr-x   1 root       989472 Jul  2  2003 /usr/bin/fetchmail
>     % fetchmail --version | head 1
>     This is fetchmail release 6.2.2+NTLM+SSL
>     %
> 
> Any ideas what might trigger this intermittent but recurring problem?
> 
> Any idea how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Beau
> 

   I have received several junk emails which are indicated as large but show
on my reader as no content because the content is within the header area,
preceeded by a blank line. I can see the contents using a simple text
editor. Note that my computer does not run Microsoft, and is very unlikely
to even understand any code enclosed, so I have no problems viewing the
junk.

-- 
Chris Bell