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[fetchmail]Help! Fetchmail stopped working suddenly!

2002-04-02 22:25:17
Fetchmail has been working great until just this weekend.  I suddently
started getting "SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA ..." messages and my mailbox
would fill with duplicate messages.  I restarted fetchmail and it didn't
fix the problem. I even rebooted the machine. I then changed my config to
use IMAP instead and it worked okay for a day.  Then today it started
doing it again this afternoon (less than 24 hours after I got it 
working with IMAP) ... This time, stopping and starting the fetchmail 
daemon fixed it.  But I don't know when it'll stop again.

Any ideas?

The only recent changes I can think of are that I switched IMAP servers
from UW IMAP to Courier about a week ago.  At the time, I experimented
with maildrop but then switched back to Procmail.  I suppose the maildrop
issue might be related, but my postfix master.cf and main.cf file have
references to maildrop removed -- and everything was working okay for a 
week. At about the same time I also upgraded postfix.  So it's possible 
it's one of these other programs. However, it's been restarting or 
changing fetchmail that has fixed my problems, so I'm inclined to start 
with fetchmail.

Thanks!

Jen

Here is an excerpt from my mail.log file (grep -i fetchmail):

Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda postfix/qmgr[496]: F2A8E13E1A: 
from=<fetchmail(_at_)towanda(_dot_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com>, size=2024, 
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda fetchmail[336]: reading message 
jennyw(_at_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com@sinclair.swishmail.com:9 of 10 (1975 
header octets) 
Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda fetchmail[336]:  (1331 body octets) 
Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda fetchmail[336]:  flushed 
Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda postfix/pickup[8784]: 9E91A13E1A: uid=102 
from=<fetchmail>
Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda postfix/qmgr[496]: 9E91A13E1A: 
from=<fetchmail(_at_)towanda(_dot_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com>, size=3578, 
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr  2 13:59:00 towanda fetchmail[336]: reading message 
jennyw(_at_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com@sinclair.swishmail.com:10 of 10 (2646 
header octets) 
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda fetchmail[336]:  (1529 body octets) 
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda postfix/pickup[8784]: 2A20A13E1A: uid=102 
from=<fetchmail>
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda postfix/qmgr[496]: 2A20A13E1A: 
from=<fetchmail(_at_)towanda(_dot_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com>, size=4114, 
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream 
socket error 
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: socket error while fetching from 
sinclair.swishmail.com 
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: 5.9.3 querying sinclair.swishmail.com 
(protocol IMAP) at Tue Apr  2 13:59:01 2002: poll completed 
Apr  2 13:59:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: Query status=2 (SOCKET) 
Apr  2 14:04:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: 5.9.3 querying sinclair.swishmail.com 
(protocol IMAP) at Tue Apr  2 14:04:01 2002: poll started 
Apr  2 14:04:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: 9 messages for 
jennyw(_at_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com at sinclair.swishmail.com. 
Apr  2 14:04:01 towanda fetchmail[336]: reading message 
jennyw(_at_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com@sinclair.swishmail.com:1 of 9 (2646 header 
octets) 
Apr  2 14:04:02 towanda fetchmail[336]:  (1529 body octets) 
Apr  2 14:04:02 towanda postfix/pickup[8784]: 4275E13E1A: uid=102 
from=<fetchmail>
Apr  2 14:04:02 towanda fetchmail[336]: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream 
socket error 
Apr  2 14:04:02 towanda fetchmail[336]: socket error while fetching from 
sinclair.swishmail.com 
Apr  2 14:04:02 towanda postfix/qmgr[496]: 4275E13E1A: 
from=<fetchmail(_at_)towanda(_dot_)dangerousideas(_dot_)com>, size=4114, 
nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr  2 14:04:02 towanda fetchmail[336]: 5.9.3 querying sinclair.swishmail.com 
(protocol IMAP) at Tue Apr  2 14:04:02 2002: poll completed