Re: fetchmail problems

["G. T. Francisco, III" <g3 mcs net>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:59:02PM -0400, Reverend said:

> 	I have a 470KB mail file which contains 59 messages. When
> fetchmail goes to get the mail file (and parse it and whatever it does),
> it downloads the entire thing, knowing how big each message is, which is
> fine... however... after it gets the mail file, it takes the first message
> out, flushes it, and goes to get message two through the same method... it
> downloads the entire file just to get the top message.. so I end up with a
> mail file that's several MB in size instead of 470KB.
> 
> Output when fetchmail is run in normal mode. If you notice... the byte
> counts on the messages is fine; however, the dots reflect what is really
> happening. That many dots would suggest about a couple hundred KB or there
> abouts.
> 

I think this is a know problem in older versions of fetchmail. Upgrade to
the latest version and see if that works.

Cheers,

G-3