Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail suddenly downloading the same messages over and over

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

Am 14. Dezember 2016 13:28:27 MEZ, schrieb Rick Harris
<ric...@ya...>:

    Hi,
    Been a constant user of fetchmail for many years now without issue but suddenly today it is now stuck in a loop constantly downloading all the messages off the remote POP3 server over and over.
    My /etc/fetchmailrc config has not changed nor has the machine fetchmail is running on received any software updates in some months.
    Here is a syslog snippet:fetchmail: reading message ric...@po...:1919 of 1919 (51608 octets) not flushed
    fetchmail: 1919 messages (1919 seen) for rickharris at pop.mail.yahoo.com.au <http://pop.mail.yahoo.com.au> (384268734 octets).
    fetchmail: reading message ric...@po...:1 of 1919 (11191 octets) not flushed
    fetchmail: reading message ric...@po...:2 of 1919 (9625 octets) not flushed
    <snip>...and onwards forever downloading the same messages over and over again.
    /etc/fetchmailrc
    set postmaster "postmaster"
    set no bouncemail
    set no spambounce
    set properties ""
    set syslog
    set invisible
    poll pop.mail.yahoo.com.au <http://pop.mail.yahoo.com.au> with proto POP3
           user "rickharris", with password "...", is "rickharris" here, nofetchall keep limit 20240000
           ssl

    The 'nofetchall' option was added after reading http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#O9 but
    <http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#O9%C2%A0but> has done nothing to fix the problem.
    I am not able to test removing the 'keep' option as I wish to keep the messages on the remote server (and it's always worked previously).
    Any guidance as to what might be causing this?
    The only workaround I have so far is to stop using fetchmail when I'd really like to continue using it.

    Regards,Rick
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Hi Rick, That is mysterious. is the hardware failing, or was there a
brownout? Does the problem persist if you reboot the computer? Can you
run a memory check tool and see if it finds anything of concern? If it
does, can you send me verbose logs (FAQ item #G3) off-list? Regards,
Matthias