[fetchmail]Re: Unwanted "retained"

[Matthias Andree]

Sunil Shetye <shetye@bombay.retortsoft.com> writes:

> If your webmail server is showing no mails and fetchmail is showing
> one (retained) mail, then you just ignore it. It is the "FOLDER
> INTERNAL DATA" mail that was probably created by the webmail server.
> fetchmail neither downloads nor deletes this mail.
>
> To see what the message looks like, go to
> <http://www.wam.umd.edu/howto/pophelp.html>.
>
> To fix the "segmentation fault", please upgrade fetchmail. However,
> note that the mail will continue to be retained after upgradation.

I have added a FAQ item No. O15, to ship with the upcoming fetchmail
6.3.0, to document this, so we have our own explanation for it and need
not relay on third-party sites.

I have also put a copy of such a message with some more explanations
into the "transact.c" commentary so the place where this special
treatment happens is easier to find.

(Changes are in SVN and will ship with 6.2.9-rc10.)

-- 
Matthias Andree