Re: fetchmail problems

[Reverend <statux bigfoot com>]

Thanks.. I got a 4.5.x package from an original 5.2 archive and things
work better now :)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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