Hi, Well, the last download of 40 messages was of 40 messages. i.e they were all there. However, everyone was 3 octets short of what was expected.
Now the problem resolves to why must I use -e limit to ensure downloading of the mail. Is the 3 missing octets on each message a factor in anything. Next download i will not use the -e limit and see what success or failure attends it. In case it got lost, can i use the -n miscellaneous option in fetchmail to speed up things perhaps? Yours ever in query Ian -- Ian Balchin http://www.imaginet.co.za/fables This machine is running Debian GNU/Linux ... http://www.debian.org