Re: [fetchmail-users] message was not the expected length errors

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

On 23/12/05, Frederik <fr...@gm...> wrote:
> Since tonight, I'm suffering from "message [...] was not the expected
> length" errors. I see it on one mailbox on my ISP (the other mailbox is
> unaffected though), and it makes fetchmail completely fail to retrieve
> mails from the mailbox concerned.

I've often seen this before and it's never caused a problem in the
past.  However my days of using that horribly buggy POP server are
long over :-)


> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 4693
> 1 message for username at pop.pandora.be (4693 octets).
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 4693
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4693 octets
> reading message use...@po...:1 of 1 (4693 octets)

Right, so the POP server has stated that the message is 4693 bytes long, total.

> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<coo...@ma...> SIZE=4693

And fetchmail passes this on.

> #**********************************.****************fetchmail: message
> use...@po...:1 was not the expected length (4803 actual != 4693
> expected) fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
> fetchmail: terminated with signal 2

And it turns out to be a bit longer.  It would be useful to see what
the message from your SMTP server is - I suspect the problem may be on
that end.

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