I'm attempting to switch over to balsa (the version built into current xubuntu lts, 2.4.11-1), and download a year or so of archives off gmail via pop3. Since gmail only gives ~500 messages per pop session, I told it to check mail once a minute and left it running overnight. When I get up, it's stuck in an endless loop appending duplicate messages to my inbox, because one of the messages won't download and in that case it drops the connection rather than calling quit, meaning none of the messages are deleted off the server, so it re-downloads them (and hits the same error again) next time. (Pause to write quick python program to detect/kill duplicates in inbox.) A couple complicating factors: 1) The error message pops up in two xfce bubble that go away again in about 3 seconds. 2) The message number it's complaining about is only identifiable via the pop interface, not via gmail's web view. (Pause to write quick python program to download a batch of pop messages and write them to numbered files.) I use said python program to delete the batch of mail it couldn't download (but which I copied to separate files; it's from september 2011 anyway), and set it downloading again. It gets up to february of this year, and does it again. This time, I caught the line of text it was complaining about, which starts with ">> Ethtool", and the word "Ethtool" is not in message 129 (as it said) but message 126 in the batch, which is attached. I can't control what people on linux-kernel send me. Is there any way to fix balsa? Rob
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