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

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 7/23/07, Beau James <bj...@ci...> wrote:
> 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:

This suggests your ISP has changed something.

> 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.

Well, a look at your .fetchmailrc and the output of the diagnostics
command mentioned in the FAQ (under reporting bugs) would help.

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