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Raphael Ahrens
Raphael Ahrens
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Same problem here. SomeSome POP3 serverservers are missing the LIST command. This command indeed gives the size of each mail available. To avoid this check, and soto find a path to restore the service, just use the fetchmail "fetchsizelimit" option and set it to 0.

fetchsizelimit 0

This way, fetchmail doesn't care about sizes any more, so skip and skips the use of the LIST command. Problem solved.

Same problem here. Some POP3 server are missing the LIST command. This command indeed gives the size of each mail available. To avoid this check, and so find a path to restore the service, just use the fetchmail "fetchsizelimit" option and set it to 0.

fetchsizelimit 0

This way, fetchmail doesn't care about sizes any more, so skip the use of the LIST command. Problem solved.

Some POP3 servers are missing the LIST command. This command indeed gives the size of each mail available. To avoid this check, and to find a path to restore the service, just use the fetchmail "fetchsizelimit" option and set it to 0.

fetchsizelimit 0

This way, fetchmail doesn't care about sizes any more and skips the use of the LIST command. Problem solved.

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Brent Frère
Brent Frère
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Same problem here. Some POP3 server are missing the LIST command. This command indeed gives the size of each mail available. To avoid this check, and so find a path to restore the service, just use the fetchmail "fetchsizelimit" option and set it to 0.

fetchsizelimit 0

This way, fetchmail doesn't care about sizes any more, so skip the use of the LIST command. Problem solved.