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fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol

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fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol
« on: March 27, 2006, 05:56:47 PM »
I've checked the server (SME 6.0.1-01) yesterday and I found around 190000  :-o  emails from Cron Deamon in the inbox of Admin.
I managed to delete them all (after puzzling how to do it the quickest way) but now I'm not sure why this is happening.

The mails were stored in /home/e-smith/Maildir/cur and /home/e-smith/Maildir/new

All the messages came from Cron <root@gateway> /etc/startmail and contained this message: fetchmail:-:7: parse error at protocol
I'm running fetchmail (version which was available back in january 2005) which was downloaded from http://www.schirrms.net/sme/SMEFetchMail.php .
I used the formmagick perl-CGI-FormMagick-0.89-08 as wel.

What am I missing? The inbox floods with a message per 5 mins (every 5 mins SME checks for mail on several POP3- accounts on differentl ISP's.)
I used the search function but this gave not much help on this :cry:

Is there anything I can do to get rid of these messages? If more info is needed, please ask, I'm happy to post more if I can find some.
Lum-chan