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

[Frederik <fr...@gm...>]

On 1/19/06, Frederik <fr...@gm...> wrote:
> On 12/24/05, Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > 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?
>
> The problem disappeared as suddenly after it appeared. Well, till
> today at least, because now exactly the same problem started again.

And a bit after I wrote this, all started to work again.

That means: while doing a fetchmail -v -v, it still had the error
messages about inccorret size, but it continued to download
everything. After that, I restarted fetchmail, and mails are now being
downloaded without errors. Weird...


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