[fetchmail-users] Fetchmail retrieving message body of only "OK FETCH completed"?

[Beau J. <bj...@ci...>]

I searched but did not find anyone describing this particular symptom.

I've been using fetchmail for several years without problem.

In the past month or so, I've begun to see occasional emails where
the SMTP header is fetched correctly, but the message body is not,
even though they body is just simple plain text.  Instead, I get
the single line:

   A0007 OK FETCH completed.

as the body of the message.  This has happened six times in the past
5 weeks; prior to that, it had not happened for several years.

I have not changed anything in my "fetchmail.rc".  I am using the
fersion of fetchmail currently deployed by our sysadmins, which
looks like it has not change in a long time:

    % ls -lL `which fetchmail`
    -rwxr-xr-x   1 root       989472 Jul  2  2003 /usr/bin/fetchmail
    % fetchmail --version | head 1
    This is fetchmail release 6.2.2+NTLM+SSL
    %

Any ideas what might trigger this intermittent but recurring problem?

Any idea how to fix it?

Thanks,

Beau

Beau James
Cisco Systems

P.S. I see from the fetchmail home page that version 6.3.8 is current.
     I'll try to get our sysadmins to upgrade.  But any ideas about
     why this new behavior just cropped up, using the older version,
     would be much appreciated.