[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#383870: fetchmail: Fetchmail duplicates my SPAM every 10 minutes - ARGH!

[Helge Hafting]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> (demoting to serious, tagging upstream, retitling)
>
> Additional info:
>
> fetchmail 6.3.4 and older do NOT log out of the upstream server after
> SIGPIPE (I don't know the rationale behind this - it's not in the
> comments), which prevents the deletions from happening properly.
> Retitling the bug accordingly.
>   
Thank you for the response.  I got around the problem temporarily by
reconfiguring exim to accept many more malformed adresses
in a session before hanging up.  (I now allow 100 instead of the
default 3).

I agree that "grave" was exaggregating, given that it was solveable
with a config change.  I was a bit desperate at the moment, worrying that
I might be unable to download email at all for some time.

There is no need to provide a special package just for me, as I
worked around it by relaxing exim.  Please use the time to
work on a fix instead.  My suggestion is to have fetchmail disconnect in
an orderly way, so that the messages actually downloaded are deleted.

This would solve the problem - I would get first 115 messages, then
a hangup.  After 10min, I'd get some more messages until exim trips up,
and after a few more rounds I'd get all my mail. 

Thanks for all the tips on workarounds and configuration, there is
clearly a lot I could do to avoid downloading that spam in the first place.
Still, rejecting on TO address is tricky, mailing list mail is usually not
addressed to me.

Helge Hafting