Bug 164299

Summary:	net-mail/fetchmail-6.3.6 - LIST 1 error during operation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Baribeault <david.baribeault>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	matthias.andree
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Baribeault 2007-01-28 20:24:12 UTC

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

Comment 1 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-29 23:21:32 UTC

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...

Comment 2 Andrej Kacian (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-25 21:18:11 UTC

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.