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

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) schrieb am 2007-02-03:

> Thanks for your reply. From your reply, it would imply that fetchmail 
> would flush or delete these email - however it doesn't. After about a 

No, it wouldn't, and your upstream ISP shouldn't accept them in the
first place. Talk to them. There is a vast choice of qmail front-ends
that perform various additional checks before accepting a message.

> month, I'll have quite a number of these mails on the ISP's server and 
> on each fetchmail run (it runs ever 10 minutes in cron) i would see a 
> lot of these SAME unflushed emails (as per the log on on first email). 
> Am I using the wrong parameter or am I missing a parameter? I am willing 
> to take the risk and consequences if there is a parameter in fetchmail 
> that will FORCE-DELETE or FLUSH these emails.

Check the antispam configuration option, but that's a bad solution - if
you are 100% sure it's not a local issue, you should really talk to the
ISP instead and have them refuse messages from nonexistent or
nonresolvable domains.

> I ran my fetchmail manually and it download 58 emails of which 9 were 
> faulty and not flushed (as per the log).

fetchmail hasn't downloaded them and seen a "temporary" error code, so
it assumes the download will work in the future.


Please do trim your quotes next time, and do not top-post.

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Matthias Andree