fetchmail troubles with faulty headers

Hello to everybody,

To retrive e-mails, I use fetchmail, but its not reliable and I didn't find
a fechmail-news-group.

Here my problem: fetchmail blocks on some (faulty?) headers:

fetchmail: awakened at Mon Jan 12 07:46:27 2004
fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge
fetchmail: 45 messages for fabio.vassalli at pop.bluewin.ch (726897 octets).
fetchmail: reading message (E-Mail Removed):1 of 45 (5761
octets) fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
fetchmail: message delimiter found while scanning headers
fetchmail:**flushed
fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.bluewin.ch
fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)
fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge
fetchmail: sleeping at Mon Jan 12 07:47:09 2004

I have to remove the faulty mail manually to get fetchmail to downlaod the
other mails. Who could help me?

fetchmail Version 6.2.3+POP2+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS
Fallback MDA: (none)
Linux desk 2.4.21-144-default #1 Sat Nov 22 16:22:02 UTC 2003 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
on SuSE 9.0

thanks
fabio vassalli

fabio vassalli <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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> To retrive e-mails, I use fetchmail, but its not reliable and I didn't find
> a fechmail-news-group.

> Here my problem: fetchmail blocks on some (faulty?) headers:

> fetchmail: awakened at Mon Jan 12 07:46:27 2004
> fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge
> fetchmail: 45 messages for fabio.vassalli at pop.bluewin.ch (726897 octets).
> fetchmail: reading message (E-Mail Removed):1 of 45 (5761
> octets) fetchmail: incorrect header line found while scanning headers
> fetchmail: message delimiter found while scanning headers
> fetchmail:**flushed
> fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from pop.bluewin.ch
> fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)
> fetchmail: could not decode BASE64 challenge
> fetchmail: sleeping at Mon Jan 12 07:47:09 2004

> I have to remove the faulty mail manually to get fetchmail to downlaod the
> other mails. Who could help me?

You can telnet to a POP3 server and delete directly on the server
or even easier get your hands on 'poppy' (search freshmeat.net) a
small perl script allowing deleting mails interactive directly on
a POP3 server.

Good luck

BTW
You could have found the answer searching goups.google.com, AFAIR
this question has been answered quite often.

--
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

> You can telnet to a POP3 server and delete directly on the server
> or even easier get your hands on 'poppy' (search freshmeat.net) a
> small perl script allowing deleting mails interactive directly on
> a POP3 server.

It would be much more interesting to get fetchmail working, I can't inspect
mannually hundreds of messages every day

thanks

fabio vassalli <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> > You can telnet to a POP3 server and delete directly on the server
> > or even easier get your hands on 'poppy' (search freshmeat.net) a
> > small perl script allowing deleting mails interactive directly on
> > a POP3 server.

> It would be much more interesting to get fetchmail working, I can't inspect
> mannually hundreds of messages every day

Sure, I get this problem usually once a year and deleting the
mail on the server solves the problem, I'm running an older
version.

I'd drop the author a mail, with full debugging output.

http://catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/

--
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM

> Sure, I get this problem usually once a year and deleting the
> mail on the server solves the problem, I'm running an older
> version.
Unfortunately I have this problem twice a day (I also have the impression
that older versions worked better)
> I'd drop the author a mail, with full debugging output.
Allready done

Tanks fabio vassalli