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<DIV>Hi</DIV>
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<DIV>I’ve got an old-fashioned email set-up that pre-dates my ISP offering IMAP
access – in fact I set this up after asking this group for advice ~16 years ago
(thanks again!). I use fetchmail to pull messages from my ISP’s POP3
server and then (via postfix) dump them onto a server which in turn runs IMAP
and makes the email available to multiple devices. This works well for me
and I’m in no hurry to change it.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Except.. I keep getting a message like this in /var/log/mail.log – it’s
nothing more than an annoyance but I’d appreciate advice on how I might get rid
of it. </DIV>
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<DIV>Jun 8 18:00:24 karelia dovecot: imap-login: Login:
user=<james>, method=PLAIN, rip=86.17.172.114, lip=192.168.0.99,
mpid=13979, session=<tB7/i5WnovtWEaxy></DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:00:24 karelia dovecot: imap(james): Logged out in=120
out=1139</DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:00:53 karelia dovecot: imap-login: Login:
user=<james>, method=PLAIN, rip=86.17.172.114, lip=192.168.0.99,
mpid=13984, TLS, session=<p/m2jZWnXsJWEaxy></DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:26 karelia dovecot: imap(james): Logged out in=135593
out=75268385</DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:48 karelia fetchmail[2214]: 1 message for
wypers@<redacted> at pop3.ntlworld.com (1942 octets).</DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:48 karelia postfix/smtpd[13996]: connect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]</DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:48 karelia postfix/smtpd[13996]: warning: Illegal address
syntax from localhost[127.0.0.1] in MAIL command: <zydnsacabyinv@></DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:48 karelia fetchmail[2214]: reading message
wypers@<redacted>@pop3.ntlworld.com:1 of 1 (1942 octets) not flushed</DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:48 karelia postfix/smtpd[13996]: disconnect from
localhost[127.0.0.1] ehlo=1 mail=0/1 rset=1 quit=1 commands=3/4</DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:48 karelia dovecot: imap-login: Login:
user=<james>, method=PLAIN, rip=86.17.172.114, lip=192.168.0.99,
mpid=14002, TLS, session=<M82dlJWnuppWEaxy></DIV>
<DIV>Jun 8 18:02:50 karelia dovecot: imap(james): Connection closed
(STATUS finished 1.316 secs ago) in=348 out=976</DIV>
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<DIV>I’m assuming that the problem is a malformed email on the POP3 server that
fetchmail can’t fetch and delete because my local postfix rejects it.</DIV>
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<DIV>To verify this I’ve tried to log on to VirginMedia’s POP3 server manually
with</DIV>
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<DIV>openssl s_client -connect pop3.ntlworld.com:995 </DIV>
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<DIV>and get as far as</DIV>
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<DIV>+OK Virgin Media POP3 server ready [ e4c558782NTL ].</DIV>
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<DIV>When I then enter</DIV>
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<DIV>USER <same email address as in /etc/fetchmailrc></DIV>
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<DIV>it hangs for a minute and then dumps me out with</DIV>
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<DIV>read:errno=0</DIV>
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<DIV>Does anyone know the correct incantation to get command-line access to
Virgin’s POP3 server, or other client methods I could try to find and delete
this message? Or am I looking in the wrong place?</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
<DIV>James</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>