[fetchmail]Oversized messages

[Joshua Crawford]

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* Neil Williams <neil@publicus.co.uk> [2004-11-19 10:16 +0000]:
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> Dear Fetchmail-friends
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> I have been actively using fetchmail for the past few months and am very=
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> happy with it except for one thing which I will explain below after I=20
> have described my setup.
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> I have release 6.2.1+POP2+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+OPIE+NLS. My server sits at=
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> the end of an ADSL line. I fetch mail from a POP3 box and my ISP and it=
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> ends up in a Cyrus IMAP folder.

I have 6.2.5 (Slackware 10.0), and fetch multiple POP3's to be delivered by
procmail.

> I run fetchmail in daemon mode:
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> # fetchmail --limit 50000 -d 240
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> I set up the size limit because I recently received a message (wrongly=20
> addressed) with a 5M attachment:-(

Your new limit will also stop most worms. And many newsletters.

> All works fine except for the oversized email notices. I do get some=20
> notices but these are erratic (they seem to stop after a fetchmail has=20
> been running for a little while).

I have this problem also. I have 'warnings 3600' in my fetchmailrc, but I
only seem to receive the warnings when I restart fetchmail (usually when my
dialup disconnects).

> Also, the only useful information=20
> logged in the notices are the size and number of oversized messages.

Yeah, it would be nice if it told you the account name as well as the
server.

> Finally, I haven't worked out if their is a user command which will=20
> allow me to fetch the oversized messages but keep the daemon running.

I'd like to know this too. I currently use a script to stop the daemon,
download with no limit and restart the daemon.

> Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.

No help sorry, just verification.
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Joshua 'bruce' Crawford ... http://www.geocities.com/mortarn

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzche

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