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How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net or other Maillennium servers?

April 26, 2017comcast.net fetchmail maillennium servers

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How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net or other Maillennium servers?

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Stock fetchmail will work with a Maillennium POP3/PROXY server… but this server will truncate “TOP” responses after 64 – 82 kB (we have varying reports), in violation of Internet Standard #53 aka. RFC-1939 (POP3). Don’t mistake this for a fetchmail bug. (Reported July 2003.) Comcast documented they haven’t understood what this is about in two messages from April 2004. Beginning with version 6.3.2, fetchmail will fall back to the RETR command if the greeting string contains “Maillennium POP3/PROXY server”, and print a warning message. This means however that fetchmail has no means to prevent the “seen” flag from being set on the server (Note that officially, POP3 has no notion of seen tracking, but it works for some sites.) Workaround for older versions: use the fetchall option.