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July 18, 2005
Fetchmail only retreiving mail headers on POP3
So you got fetchmail talking to some POP3 box, but it only pulls in the headers of messages?
The most likely problem is that your POP3 server kind of supports the 'TOP' command, returning only the headers of the top x messages instead of the full body like fetchmail wants.
The sollution is to use the -a flag which forces fetchmail to use RETR instead of TOP.
-a | --all
(Keyword: fetchall) Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages from the mailserver. The default is to fetch only messages the server has not marked seen. Under POP3, this option also forces the use of RETR rather than TOP.
Posted by spiffed at July 18, 2005 2:32 PM