fetchmail stuipidity

HaJo Schatz hajo at hajo.net
Sun Feb 20 06:31:59 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:20 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I just manually cleaned off 460+ emails from my ISP's mailbox that I
> 'fetch' mail from.
> 
> they were logging in my fetchmail log as...
> 
> fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
Same here. After each fetchmail-run (which fetches the legit mails and
leaves some rubbish behind), I run a small script which telnets into the
POP3 account and deletes all remaining mail @ the ISP. I'm assuming here
that the badly formatted mails are spam anyhow.

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