fetchmail problem: fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)

[mister_v]

Hi,

I have a problem with fetching mail from a account.
I always get the error:

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fetchmail: client/server protocol error while fetching from user@site.com
fetchmail: Query status=4 (PROTOCOL)

When I do it with verbose (fetchmail -v):

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fetchmail: POP3> USER user
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logged in.
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR No INBOX for user.
fetchmail: No INBOX for user.
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT

I checked on the POP3 server an the file is there.
(I also own the mail-server)
The files are large because no mails were fetch since a few days.

Anyone got any idea what the problem can be?

Thanks

[mister_v]

I solved my problem with a workaround.

I deleted the mailbox-file on the mail-server. (Made a backup first)

Let the new mail come in and it worked!

I don't know what went wrong.
The file was 10Mb, which isn't supper large.
Perhaps some faulty characters in it?