Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 18:28:22 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem POPing mail Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060519182721.026726a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <20060519190708.9822.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <20060519190708.9822.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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Some SPAM has badly formed headers that trip up POP. You can log onto the
system with the bad mail file and use pine to clear it.
-Derek
At 06:20 PM 5/19/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote:
>FreeBSD 6.1
>
>I am using fetchmail to collect my mail and store it on my server. I
>currently have three other PC's connect on this LAN. I have Qpopper
>installed to allow me to access the mail on one of the other PC's if I
>want.
>
>Fetchmail has been gathering mail from SPAMCOP.net for me for several
>months without incident. I have a user named spamcop that fetchmail
>feeds the mail from SPAMCOP into.
>
>Something has happened to that folder. Qpopper will no longer access it.
>This is the log entries in the /var/log/messages file:
>
>May 19 18:54:48 seibercom qpopper[98226]: spamcop at boss (192.168.0.4):
>-ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>May 19 18:54:48 seibercom qpopper[98226]: Stats: spamcop 0 0 128
>36944163 boss 192.168.0.4
>
>May 19 18:54:54 seibercom qpopper[98226]: I/O error flushing output to
>client spamcop at boss [192.168.0.4]: Operation not permitted (1)
>
>May 19 18:59:31 seibercom qpopper[298]: spamcop at boss (192.168.0.4):
>-ERR POP EOF or I/O Error
>
>May 19 18:59:31 seibercom qpopper[298]: Stats: spamcop 0 0 129 36950086
>boss 192.168.0.4
>
>May 19 18:59:37 seibercom qpopper[298]: I/O error flushing output to
>client spamcop at boss [192.168.0.4]: Operation not perm
>itted (1)
>
>Boss is the name of one of my other PC's.
>
>I used pico to check out the spamcop file, and it came up with a message
>stating: File Has Long Line. I do not know what that means. I tried
>copying the file to a new name, clearing out the old file and copying
>the contents back, but Qpopper will still not access it.
>
>I have temporarily moved the contents to a new file and cleaned out the
>original. Qpopper is again accessing the file.
>
>What could be wrong with the file, and is there anyway that I can fix it.
>There is quite a bit of mail in it and I would rather not lose it. I
>have been reading it via the console, but that is not what I want to do.
>
>Thanks!
>
>--
>Gerard Seibert
>gerard@seibercom.net
>
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