Debian Bug report logs - #49244
errorfetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jan Arne Fagertun <Jan.A.Fagertun@energy.sintef.no>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: errorfetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:29:22 +0100 (CET)

Package: fetchmail
Version: 5.1.2-1

I submit this one once again - I am not sure if I got exim working, so
I installed smail again....

I get from time to time an endless row of these error messages:

errorfetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket

It seems that it may have something to do with (one of) the messages
to be fetched, because if I in some way or another manage to remove
the mails from the server fetchmail works OK after that. Sometimes I
have managed to avoid the problem by issuing a command like
"fetchmail -n".

I am using bleeding edge potato, but I think this problem occured in
stable, too (not sure). At present the kernel version is 1.2.12, but
the problem occured earlier, too.

My libc6 version is 2.1.2-9



The mail is being fetched from a Windows NT server.

vsl159:(~) % fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 5.1.2+NTLM+SDPS+NLS
Linux vsl159.energy.sintef.no 2.2.12 #3 SMP Tue Oct 26 12:12:00 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /home/vsl159/a/janaf/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /home/vsl159/a/janaf/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to janaf.
Options for retrieving from EFINET/jaf/janaf@efisms.efi.sintef.no:
  True name of server is efisms.efi.sintef.no.
  Protocol is POP3.
  Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
  Default mailbox selected.
  Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Messages will be delivered with "/usr/sbin/exim -oem janaf".
  Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.

Here is my .fetchmailrc:


poll efisms.efi.sintef.no protocol POP3 username EFINET/jaf/janaf password XXXXXX mda "/usr/sbin/exim -oem janaf"

I have used mda "/usr/sbin/smail -oem janaf" up to today, and converted
to exim to see if that might correct the problem (wild guess :-)

The error message. (I typed "fetchmail -a -vv" this time):


fetchmail: 5.1.2 querying efisms.efi.sintef.no (protocol POP3) at Fri, 05 Nov 19
99 09:55:08 +0100 (CET)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Microsoft Exchange POP3-server versjon 5.5.2650.23 er klar
fetchmail: POP3> USER EFINET/jaf/janaf
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Brukeren ble logget på
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 41 62344
41 messages for EFINET/jaf/janaf at efisms.efi.sintef.no (62344 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< 1 7907
fetchmail: POP3< 2 1478
fetchmail: POP3< 3 1185
fetchmail: POP3< 4 2048
fetchmail: POP3< 5 2048
fetchmail: POP3< 6 3179
fetchmail: POP3< 7 3179
fetchmail: POP3< 8 2062
fetchmail: POP3< 9 714
fetchmail: POP3< 10 824
fetchmail: POP3< 11 824
fetchmail: POP3< 12 842
fetchmail: POP3< 13 1807
fetchmail: POP3< 14 1117
fetchmail: POP3< 15 906
fetchmail: POP3< 16 3560
fetchmail: POP3< 17 3560
fetchmail: POP3< 18 2318
fetchmail: POP3< 19 692
fetchmail: POP3< 20 946
fetchmail: POP3< 21 435
fetchmail: POP3< 22 693
fetchmail: POP3< 23 1716
fetchmail: POP3< 24 1716
fetchmail: POP3< 25 781
fetchmail: POP3< 26 781
fetchmail: POP3< 27 714
fetchmail: POP3< 28 714
fetchmail: POP3< 29 768
fetchmail: POP3< 30 768
fetchmail: POP3< 31 1378
fetchmail: POP3< 32 1378
fetchmail: POP3< 33 483
fetchmail: POP3< 34 1683
fetchmail: POP3< 35 1683
fetchmail: POP3< 36 722
fetchmail: POP3< 37 1183
fetchmail: POP3< 38 1105
fetchmail: POP3< 39 1003
fetchmail: POP3< 40 722
fetchmail: POP3< 41 722
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
reading message 1 of 41 (7907 octets)
About to rewrite From: Wolfgang Teichmann <wal_teichmann@compuserve.com>
Rewritten version is From: Wolfgang Teichmann <wal_teichmann@compuserve.com>

About to rewrite To: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
Rewritten version is To: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de

About to rewrite Sender: owner-isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
Rewritten version is Sender: owner-isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de

fetchmail: about to deliver with: /usr/sbin/exim -oem janaf
#**********************************.***************************.****************
*********.*****************************.*******************************.********
********************.**************************.****************************.***
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This message keeps on until I "kill -9" fetchmail.

-- 
Jan Arne Fagertun <Jan.A.Fagertun@energy.sintef.no> Phone: +47 73596890
http://www.maskin.ntnu.no/mtf/people/janaf/           Fax: +47 73593580
  Research Scientist, SINTEF Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
NTNU => NT, Not Unix... http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/ntnu/ - better use Linux

Message #20 received at 49203-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Haggart <ph@bsfh.org>

To: 49203-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 49243-done@bugs.debian.org, 49244-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:46:25 -0500

fetchmail (5.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream source
  * SIGPIPE patch (fixes bug#49203)

 -- Paul Haggart <phaggart@debian.org>  Wed,  1 Dec 1999 09:37:43 -0500

-- 
Paul Haggart - System Administrator, RipNET Internet Services

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