Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail gets stuck because of malformed spam

[Thomas W. <to...@to...>]

> > or like this:
> >   mda "formail -s procmail -p"

> formail is unnecessary here, I think, as fetchmail calls the mda for every
> single message seperately.
But fetchmail doesn't generate a "From " line which is needed as a 
message separator in the mailbox. That's why formail is necessary.
Please check; maybe the "/usr/bin/procmail" example under --mda in 
the manual page is misleading here and should be changed as well.
Without formail, I couldn't produce a mailbox that is readable with "mail".

> > access to my other mails, I did not care to retrieve any of those
> > (using the webmail interface) which I should have sent here for bug
> > analysis, sorry.

> The output of fetchmail -v -v would have been a start. This could have
> also been an issue of the pop/imap server.
As I noted before (in a mail that unfortunately didn't make it on the 
list yet as I used the wrong sender address :( ) :
Whatever the issue, error handling should be reviewed and revised to 
never produce this kind of DoS situation, independent of actual error 
analysis.

Best regards,
Thomas