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

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

Beau James schrieb:
> 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?

> 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.

ISTR that there have been relevant fixes in 6.3.5, and if you're in need of
arguments for updating, point the admins to CVE-2005-2335, CVE-2005-4348,
CVE-2006-5867 and CVE-2007-1558 (for instance on the fetchmail home page)
-- and incompatibilities are noted in the "NEWS" file as such and are few
and minor, so that virtually everyone can go that migration path.

As a general remark, nobody should be running a decrepit version such as
fetchmail 6.2.2 (four and a half years old!) today, there have been far too
many bugs (important and security bugs among them) fixed since those days.

Best regards
Matthias