Hi all!
First of all: THANKS FOR FETCHMAIL !!! It's a great program to use, easy
to configure, fetchmailconf makes it a lot easier!
Short description of my problem:
After running for about 33 hours, fetchmail got the error "Too many open
files" (from the pop3 server or from my system?). After that a
"temporary name server error" caused fetchmail to not retrieve any more
mails until I restarted it. After restarting it, mails were retrieved as
usual.
From my /var/log/fetchmail file:
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 5.8.4 daemon
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.gmx.net (protocol POP3) at Mon May 28
16:39:50 2001
...
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.gmx.net (protocol POP3) at Wed May 30
01:21:42 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.gmx.net failed: Too many open files
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.gmx.net (protocol POP3) at Wed May 30
01:21:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.gmx.net failed: temporary name server
error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.onlinehome.de (protocol POP3) at Wed May
30 01:21:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.onlinehome.de failed: temporary name
server error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.puretec.de (protocol POP3) at Wed May 30
01:21:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.puretec.de failed: temporary name
server error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.gmx.net (protocol POP3) at Wed May 30
01:36:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.gmx.net failed: temporary name server
error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.gmx.net (protocol POP3) at Wed May 30
01:36:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.gmx.net failed: temporary name server
error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.onlinehome.de (protocol POP3) at Wed May
30 01:36:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.onlinehome.de failed: temporary name
server error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.8.4 querying pop.puretec.de (protocol POP3) at Wed May 30
01:36:43 2001
fetchmail: POP3 connection to pop.puretec.de failed: temporary name
server error.
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
My questions are:
Where does the error "Too many open files" come from? My system or the
pop3 server?
Why does the "temporary name server error" appear?
Why do I have to restart fetchmail to get it to work properly again?
My configuration:
1.
SuSE Linux 7.1, kernel 2.2.19 (from SuSE distro)
2.
gcc 2.95.2
3.
telnet pop.gmx.net pop3
Trying 194.221.183.20...
Connected to pop.gmx.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK GMX POP3 StreamProxy ready <8804(_dot_)991222901(_at_)mail06>
4.
sendmail 8.11.2
5.
/usr/bin/fetchmail -f /root/.fetchmailrc -L /var/log/fetchmail
6.
/usr/bin/fetchmail -V -f /root/.fetchmailrc -L /var/log/fetchmail
This is fetchmail release 5.8.4+NLS
Linux ntlinux1 2.2.19 #1 Thu May 3 14:51:17 GMT 2001 i686 unknown
Taking options from command line and /root/.fetchmailrc
Poll interval is 900 seconds
Logfile is /var/log/fetchmail
Idfile is /root/.fetchids
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to postmaster.
Options for retrieving from 1234567(_at_)pop(_dot_)gmx(_dot_)net:
True name of server is pop.gmx.net.
Protocol is POP3.
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush
off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits
off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Options for retrieving from 2345678(_at_)pop(_dot_)gmx(_dot_)net:
True name of server is pop.gmx.net.
Protocol is POP3.
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush
off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits
off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Options for retrieving from 1234-567-8(_at_)pop(_dot_)onlinehome(_dot_)de:
True name of server is poponline.kundenserver.de.
Protocol is POP3.
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush
off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits
off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
No UIDs saved from this host.
Options for retrieving from ab1234567-1234(_at_)pop(_dot_)puretec(_dot_)de:
True name of server is pop.kundenserver.de.
Protocol is POP3.
All available authentication methods will be tried.
Server nonresponse timeout is 300 seconds (default).
Default mailbox selected.
Only new messages will be retrieved (--all off).
Fetched messages will be kept on the server (--keep on).
Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush
off).
Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
Carriage-return stripping is disabled (stripcr off).
Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits
off).
MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
Recognized listener spam block responses are: 571 550 501 554
Single-drop mode: 1 local name(s) recognized.
1 UIDs saved.
Many thanks, Richard
--
Richard Ems
... e-mail: r(_dot_)ems(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net
... Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Hamburg
Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.