Well, Exim's error before it just drops the connection isn't selling fetchmail a hint that there's no progress beyond that point.
The question is: why does fetchmail not skip over the offending messages? It may or may not try to bounce them, depending on your configuration, but should mark them refused - as seen in "..flushed". But what exactly happens is a matter of your configuration. Please show your fetchmailrc file and the output of /etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run up to the error. Remember to restart fetchmail afterwards with /etc/init.d/fetchmail start -- Matthias Andree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]