error while retrieving email. Fetchmail 6.3.6 It issue LIST 1 instead of LIST and exit. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: user@gentoo ~ $ fetchmail -akv -m "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying my.inbox.com (protocol POP3) at Sun 28 Jan 2007 03:18:15 PM EST: poll started Trying to connect to 208.50.6.10/110...connected. fetchmail: POP3< +OK WM26.inbox.com POP3 server ready <5020.633055834948125000@WM26.inbox.com> fetchmail: POP3> CAPA fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows fetchmail: POP3< USER fetchmail: POP3< SASL CRAM-MD5 fetchmail: POP3< UIDL fetchmail: POP3< APOP fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> AUTH CRAM-MD5 fetchmail: POP3< + PDUwRjA0MTg1RUQxMEM5MDhAV00yNi5pbmJveC5jb20+ fetchmail: POP3> ZGF2aWQuYmFyaWJlYXVsdEBpbmJveC5jb20gNjhkMzdkMjZjN2ZlNGZmMzJjMGE3YjEyMjBiOTdiNjc= fetchmail: POP3< +OK Authentication successful fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 9 3197634 9 messages for username@inbox.com at my.inbox.com (3197634 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1 fetchmail: POP3< -ERR error during operation fetchmail: error during operation fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK WM26.inbox.com POP3 server signing off fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from david.baribeault@inbox.com@my.inbox.com fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying my.inbox.com (protocol POP3) at Sun 28 Jan 2007 03:18:17 PM EST: poll completed fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL) fetchmail: normal termination, status 4
According to rfc1939 part 5, "LIST 1" should display scan listing of message with number one, if such message exists and is not deleted. As seen on output of STAT command, there were 9 messages in your mailbox, so message number 1 was there too. Did this error appear with some recent version of fetchmail? So far it seems the server is not standards compliant...
Is this is still an issue? Did you start getting this error after upgrading fetchmail? Please try previous versions of fetchmail, as well as current 6.3.7 and report back.
