[fetchmail]Re: fetchmail problem

Rob MacGregor writes:

> > From: Shantanu <shantanu(_at_)gate(_dot_)polarhome(_dot_)com> 
> >
> > When I type fetchmail -v it starts polling one of the remote server and 
> > after
> > it finishes d/l the mails, it waits for long. Then it gives a timeout 
> > [300
> > sec] and exits. That is the reason I am not sure whether it really d/l 
> > the
> > remaining mails or just waits. Please tell what to do about this?
> > fetchmail release is 5.9.7+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+NLS
> Sounds like a problem on your remote mail server.  Not really much you can 
> do unfortunately. 
>
> The question is does it complete the poll (it'll tell you how many 
> messages it has to download) and move on to the next server, or die during 
> the poll? 
You can also use "fetchmail -v -v" to see what is going on in more detail. 

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Bill Michell
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