Re: [fetchmail-devel] what about message delimiter

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

Nico Golde <ni...@ng...> writes:

> I have a problem with the following bug:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287215
> Can someone explain it and tell me if it's a real bug?

Hard to say if (1) it's a bug, (2) it still persists (the bug was filed
against an ancient version, 5.9.11) - the message alone just means the
server sent a malformed or truncated message over the wire, that had the
"CRLF.CRLF" before the blank line that delimits the body from the header
had been seen. Perhaps the POP3 server has a broken TOP
implementation. Who knows. A bit more detail wouldn't hurt...

It might be that fetchmail doesn't recover properly, someone would have
to find out.  Perhaps the original reporter, Martin A. Hansen, can
update to the version that shipped with sarge and retry, and if it
persists, show a log of a run with LC_ALL=C and fetchmail -vv?

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Matthias Andree