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Jason Costomiris wrote:
> Using fetchmail 4.5.8. ~/.fetchmailrc generated by fetchmailconf. I
> invoke fetchmail, it connects to the POP server, authenticates properly
> using APOP. It starts downloading mail, and does the SMTP forwarding
> stuff correctly. The problem comes on the last message. If I have N
> messages, fetchmail downloads N - 1 messages. It then just sits there,
> and doesn't do much of anything. I see activity on the ISDN router,
> and even sniffed the network. It seems that I'm getting a bunch of
> "." characters and nothing else. Message N never gets RETR'd.
>
> Where did I err? BTW - the POP server on the other end is a MetaInfo
> POP3 server (from their Sendmail for NT package). Eudora for Windoze
> NT is able to pick up from it, but I don't want to use NT. :-)
Sure smells like a server-specific problem to me. Those two little
letters (`NT') make me suspicious. Eudora probably works around a
server bug.
You may find some more useful information by running fetchmail in
debug mode.
> By the way, fetchmail doesn't send DELE commands after successful RETR's.
> Is it just me, or shouldn't it do that?
With POP? Are you thinking of IMAP?
Peace,
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