Re: [fetchmail-users] Dangerous bug: losing messages into nowhere

[Antonio C. <pir...@ya...>]

Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> writes:

> First of all, thanks for the very detailed report - it's very nice to
> see complete reports with all information.

:) You're welcome

> This is a known issue (I'm loathe to call it a fetchmail bug though,
> because basically, the server sends invalid data and it's the server
> that needs fixing), but I think Gentoo are actually patching that - I
> fear fixing it in 6.3 though as people might then see garbage and
> complain about it.

Yes, the server sends invalid data, but IMHO fetchmail should NEVER
lose a message (except where stated in the documentation), i.e.:
- fetchmail understands the message -> it handles it and deletes it
- fetchmail does not understand the message -> it forgets about it but
does not delete it from the server. This means, it's true, that the
message will be downloaded and discarded again all the subsequent
times, but I think this is better than completely losing a message. If
I wasn't checking the fetchmail logs when I started it, I would have
lost hundreds of messages from my mail server (it seens that all the
messages on that server have this strange header line).

Another possibility is to delete it from the server but save it
somewhere else.

What do you think?

> I will fix this for the next major release though.
> 
> > +OK
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> 
> HTH.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Matthias Andree

Thank you very much for your prompt answer, I will have a look at the
Gentoo patch.

Kind Regards,
Guido



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