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

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Frederik's mail on Fri, Dec 23, 2005:
> 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 tried my ISP's webmail, and could access my mailbox without any
> problems. I deleted the whole contents of the mailbox, in the hope that it
> was one particual mail causing the problem. Unfortunately, on the first
> mail which arrived, the problem was there again.
> 
> I have this problem with both fetchmail from sarge (6.2.5-12sarge3), and
> with self compiled fetchmail 6.3.1.
> 
> Here's part of the output of an /etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run:
> 
> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying pop.pandora.be (protocol POP3) at Fri 23 Dec
> 2005 07:24:18 PM CET: poll started

...

> fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<coo...@ma...> SIZE=4693
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<frederik@localhost>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Accepted
> fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
> fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
> #**********************************.****************fetchmail: message
> use...@po...:1 was not the expected length (4803 actual != 4693
> expected) fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
> fetchmail: terminated with signal 2

Please try adding the "forcecr" option to your fetchmailrc.

In case it doesn't work, please send the output of "fetchmail -V" and
the details of your smtp server.

Is the "message ... was not the expected length" error coming on every
mail or on specific mails only?

-- 
Sunil Shetye.