Re: fetchmail problems

[Bruce Richardson <brichardson lineone net>]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Reverend wrote:

> Scenario:
> 
> 	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.

Upgrade your fetchmail.  I bet your version is between 4.4.1 and 4.4.8 -
get a recent version.  I'm using 4.5.2 without problems.