Quoting from cmeo(_at_)lendtech(_dot_)com(_dot_)au's mail on Wed, Aug 28, 2002
at 11:56:33PM +1000:
I spoke too soon, here is the error back again. A restart seems to clear it.
What now eh?
Chuck
1 message for cmeo at mailhost (5415 octets).
fetchmail: reading message cmeo(_at_)mailhost:1 of 1 (5415 octets)
cmeo(_at_)godzilla: fetchmail: timeout after 300 seconds.
fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from mailhost
fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR)
fetchmail: sleeping at Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:53:04 +1000 (EST)
cmeo(_at_)godzilla: fetchmail -q
fetchmail: background fetchmail at 14452 killed.
cmeo(_at_)godzilla: fetchmail: terminated with signal 15
cmeo(_at_)godzilla: fetchmail
cmeo(_at_)godzilla: fetchmail: starting fetchmail 5.9.13 daemon
fetchmail: Repoll immediately on cmeo(_at_)mailhost
fetchmail: 1 message for cmeo at mailhost (5426 octets).
fetchmail: reading message cmeo(_at_)mailhost:1 of 1 (5426 octets) fetchmail:
flushed
fetchmail: sleeping at Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:54:24 +1000 (EST)
What happens if you don't do
fetchmail -q; fetchmail
Does fetchmail keep on reporting ERROR on every run after that? Run
fetchmail -v -v
and send the logs from the last successful run onwards.
Sunil Shetye.