[fetchmail-users] feedback on failed delivery

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

Hello,
I'm bothering you again with the issue of error behaviour, this time 
it is indeed about fetchmail.
As I'm still trying to achieve a reliable overall mail configuration, 
I just tried the following in .fetchmailrc:
mda "false"

As expected, fetchmail leaves the mail on the server but user feedback 
is not good, and there is even a crash:

With fetchmail release 6.2.9-rc5+SSL:

> 1 message for deblnss01a/demsn702 at blnss35a.
> reading message deblnss01a/demsn702@blnss35a:1 of 1 (902 header octets)  (6 body octets) fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from blnss35a
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
If you look exactly, you find MDA mentioned and can draw your conclusion, 
but it's not really while "reading" the message or while "fetching" it 
(at least it's not in the process of fetching, so this is confusing), 
and it's not a socket error either, I think.

With fetchmail release 6.2.9-rc8+SSL

> 1 message for deblnss01a/demsn702 at blnss35a.
> reading message deblnss01a/demsn702@blnss35a:1 of 1 (902 header octets)  (6 body octets) Segmentation Fault
Crash.


Kind regards,
Thomas Wolff