clamassassin with call to clamav software corrupts mail messages

[Richard E Miles]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:17:30 -0500 (EST)
fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> > This is a follow up on trying to diagnose why I am getting duplicate mail
> > messages. I have turned on verbose in fetchmail call to see if I could see
> > something amiss in fetchmail with my mail server. Yesterday when I envoked
> > fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I did not experience any duplicate mail
> > messages. I perused the log file and everyting looked good. Today when I
> > envoked fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I am experiencing duplicate mail
> > messages again. I looked at the log file and everything seemed to be normal,
> > however after receiving 70 messages it slept for a while. Then it started to
> > receive messages again starting with message 1, then 2, etc. Here is an
> > excerpt from the log:
> 
> Unfortunately you don't paste the part where you see the 'restart' of
> the fetch process.

Here is a snippet of the restart process:
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0
fetchmail: 72 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (715764 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1052
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: reading message r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net:1 of 72 (1052 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.12.11; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:18:20 -0800
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you

I did notice socket errors before each refetch sequence:
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net

What could be causing the socket errors?
-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097