Yahoo POP download broken?

[Colin Law]

On 4 July 2015 at 16:57, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> Is anybody else having this issue please?
>
> I have a home server running 14.04 since before Christmas. There is a
> yahoo email address which I use for one specific purpose only, that I
> use getmail, started at intervals by cron, to download from, filter with
> procmail, and put surviving messages into my mailbox on the server.
>
> The configuration has, as I said above, been working perfectly until a
> few days ago, when for each message in the box I started getting:-
>
> Retrieval error: server for
> SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:MyYahooName at pop.mail.yahoo.com:995 is broken;
> offered message AGRVfbwAADc5VZVj1Qro+LdRu-A but failed to provide it.
> Please notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message...

I don't know but I wonder whether it is this:

getmail version 4.48.0 has been released and is available for download
at the usual place:
http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

Changes since the previous version include:

Version 4.48.0
31 May 2015
    -work around brain-damaged change in Python's poplib which causes
   message retrieval errors if any line of a message has more than
   2048 characters in it.


Colin



>
> which is getting a bit annoying. I've tried sending messages to "the
> administrator of the server" at three different addresses which have of
> course all been ignored as far as I can tell, and tried to find the on
> line help person which is rumoured to exist but is invisible to me.
>
> My getmail config is:-
> [options]
> delete = True
>
> [retriever]
> type = SimplePOP3SSLRetriever
> server = pop.mail.yahoo.com
> username = MyYahooName
> password = MyYahooPasscode
>
> [destination]
> type = MDA_external
> path = /usr/bin/procmail
> arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)", "-m", "/home/dave/.procmailrc")
> user = dave
>
>
>
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