Re: [Fetchmail-users] message size error in fetchmail

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

Am 31.10.2017 um 16:46 schrieb Chuck Campbell:
> Networksoliutions (my email provider) just changed some things, and
> fetchmail no longer works to pop my mail. I get message length errors.
> I don't know how to resolve this. This configuration had been working
> perfectly for years (date in .fetchmailrc is from 2000) until last week.
>
> I'm putting some segments of verbose logging here:
>
>
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.17 daemon
> fetchmail: 6.3.17 querying <mail server redacted> (protocol POP3) at
> Sun 29 Oct 2017
> 02:36:05 PM CDT: poll started
[...]
> fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK
> fetchmail: POP3< 1 1508958447.17539.atl4mail14,S=6598
> fetchmail: 1 is unseen
[...]
> fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 6677
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 
[...]
> fetchmail: forwarding to localhost
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<cen...@ce...>  BODY=8BITMIME
> SIZE=6677
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.0<cen...@ce...>... Sender ok
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<user redacted@localhost>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.1.5 <user redacted@localhost>... Recipient ok
> fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
> fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> fetchmail: message <email addr redacted>:1 was not the expected length
> (6846 actual != 6677 expected)
> fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
> fetchmail: SMTP< 451 4.7.0 resource unavailable
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 451 4.7.0 resource unavailable
> fetchmail: SMTP> RSET
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 2.0.0 Reset state
> fetchmail:  not flushed [...]

Hi Chuck,


fetchmail 6.3.17 isn't anywhere near recent, but I don't think this is
related.

It's been two decades that I pulled my last Sendmail server from
service, but what prevents delivery is not the size warning, but the
"451 4.7.0 resource unavailable". I don't know if sendmail complains
about the size mismatch (FreeBSD's sendmail 8.15 via sendmail -bs will
happily accept an oversized message), or if it's running out of disk
space or inodes in the /var or any your delivery partitions, normally
the size mismatch is only a warning.

Carefully check your mail log if sendmail sends any more details to
syslog, and check the output of "df" and "df -i".


HTH

Regards,

Matthias