Hi,
I have been using fetchmail -k with mutt to retrieve mails from my ISP's
POP3 server. I have also included option UIDL in .fetchmailrc. This works
very well when there are few mails in the mailbox, but if it gets many
mails in the mailbox, and I log off the dial-up connection, the POP account
seems to have been affected in some way so that no more mails are coming in
the mailbox.
When I log in again and start fetchmail, I only get mails from the time I
have logged in and no mails from the period I logged out and until I logged
in again. What can this be?
I saw this today as well, all mails since I logged out last night could not
been retrived. As a check I logged in to webmail to check my account there
before using fetchmail. There I could see all mails that had come in during
the night, but when I tried to download them, they just disappeared.
Here is some output from fetchmail -v -v:
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fetchmail: Old UID list from pop.sensewave.com:
1038559907.28181.to.server.sensewave.com,S=2404
1038560052.31558.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2512
1038560053.31563.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2113
1038560178.549.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2971
1038560185.29736.to.server.sensewave.com,S=3206 <empty>
fetchmail: Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
fetchmail: 5.9.13 querying pop.sensewave.com (protocol POP3) at Fri, 29 Nov
2002 10:21:18 +0100 (CET): poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Hello there.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Here's what I can do:
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 10
fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< IMPLEMENTATION Courier Mail Server
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER s059474
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS
fetchmail: POP3< +OK logged in.
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 5 13519
fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< 1 1038559907.28181.to.server.sensewave.com,S=2404
fetchmail: POP3< 2 1038560052.31558.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2512
fetchmail: POP3< 3 1038560053.31563.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2113
fetchmail: POP3< 4 1038560178.549.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2971
fetchmail: POP3< 5 1038560185.29736.to.server.sensewave.com,S=3206
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: 5 messages (5 seen) for s059474 at
mailfront.server.sensewave.com (13519 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 clients that break here, they violate STD53.
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2459
fetchmail: POP3< 2 2564
fetchmail: POP3< 3 2170
fetchmail: POP3< 4 3054
fetchmail: POP3< 5 3272
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: skipping message
s059474(_at_)mailfront(_dot_)server(_dot_)sensewave(_dot_)com:1 (2459
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message
s059474(_at_)mailfront(_dot_)server(_dot_)sensewave(_dot_)com:2 (2564
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message
s059474(_at_)mailfront(_dot_)server(_dot_)sensewave(_dot_)com:3 (2170
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message
s059474(_at_)mailfront(_dot_)server(_dot_)sensewave(_dot_)com:4 (3054
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message
s059474(_at_)mailfront(_dot_)server(_dot_)sensewave(_dot_)com:5 (3272
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Bye-bye.
fetchmail: 5.9.13 querying pop.sensewave.com (protocol POP3) at Fri, 29 Nov
2002 10:21:22 +0100 (CET): poll completed
fetchmail: New UID list from pop.sensewave.com:
1038559907.28181.to.server.sensewave.com,S=2404 = 1
1038560052.31558.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2512 = 1
1038560053.31563.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2113 = 1
1038560178.549.tre.server.sensewave.com,S=2971 = 1
1038560185.29736.to.server.sensewave.com,S=3206 = 1 <empty>
fetchmail: swapping UID lists
fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL)
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
fetchmail: normal termination, status 1
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
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I have used Kmail to download mails from the same server. Can this be a
cause?
Regards,
Jostein