fetchmail choked on a piece of mail

[Net Llama!]

On 02/05/03 19:56, Joel Hammer wrote:
> My incoming mail goes to various mail servers on the internet, and I run
> fetchmail to get them from various POP servers.
> 
> Today, for the first time in memory, when  fetchmail tried getting my mail,
> a particular piece of mail kept freezing during the download and fetchmail
> would finally stop, giving  an error message of some sort or another.
> I had to go onto the server with telnet and delete that piece of mail,
> then, all went well.
> 
> So, the question: What kind of mail would freeze the download and kill
> fetchmail?

some f00l who sent you a 948MB attachment?

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