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

[Jakob H. <jh...@pl...>]

Tho...@si... wrote:

> As an additional information I just remembered that I had to use
> the webmail interface because Mozilla Thunderbird was not able to
> retrieve those mails, either, and got stuck the same way,
> when this problem occurred here a few months ago.

So it is very likely that it was an pop/imap server issue, and fetchmail
cannot do much about it.
I have been running fetchmail for several years now and never had a single
case of it hanging because of some malformed message. That doesn't mean
there weren't any bugs, of course.