>Can you attach strace (you just add strace to fetchmail's command line) >and report the last few lines around where things start looking like >fetchmail running into timeouts (SIGALRM is one such sign) or socket >trouble (read errors), and/or also the last few lines of a tcpdump >running in parallel and filtering on traffic to 79.98.45.16/110?
Unfortunately I canot reproduce it. I had the message in the spam folder of the server, I moved it to inbox using the webmail interface and then started fetchmail in detached mode, but it managed to download the entire message without problems :(