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

[Jason W. <jas...@in...>]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:45:18PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
 
> > #**********************************.****************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.

If, as I also suspect, that is where the problem is, try setting the mda
option in your fetchmailrc file to, e.g., procmail.
This will bypass your local MTA. You might also be able to configure your MTA
somehow to ignore the declared message size.