Hmm-- Thanks, I will put fetchpop on the system and check it out next time fetchmail falls over.
If it works, maybe do some stirring :-)) On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Russ Pitman wrote: > > > I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaround is to > > read the mailbox on the server from netscape and delete all mail with > > "unidentified sender" in the address. These are always empty. > > > > I asked on the fetchmail-friends list if it is possible to tell > > fetchmail to disregard these mails and got no reply, so I guess fetchmail > > can't handle that. Its a PITA having to use netscape to bail fetchmail out > > tho.:-( > > I have to use fetchpop once in a while to delete a problematic > message. (I don't think my problem is the same as yours). > > Unfortunately, there isn't a fetchpop package anymore. I wonder > when it was removed from the distribution. > > $ dpkg -s fetchpop > Package: fetchpop > Status: install ok installed > Priority: extra > Section: mail > Installed-Size: 66 > Maintainer: Justin N. Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Version: 1.9-1 > Depends: libc6 > Suggests: procmail > Description: Program to get POP3 mail > Fetchpop removes mail from a remote server using the POP3 protocol. > . > Fetchpop can be run from the command line or started as a daemon process. It > has the option of passing mail through procmail. Also you may remove or keep > the messages on the remote server. > --