Arndt Faulhaber wrote:
Hi all,
On Friday 28. March 2003 05:58, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
I'm using fetchmail 5.9.0 on a Redhat 7.2 system. It's been working
great, but suddenly today I started getting socket errors:
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mail.someisp.net (protocol POP3) at Thu 27 Mar
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mail.someisp.net (protocol POP3) at Thu 27 Mar
I got the same thing also the single dot on an otherwise empty line doesn't
apply for me, too. As far as I have seen, this was always combined with
bouncing messages, that have not been accepted by the destination mailserver
(when delivering mail from a multidrop mbox to an internal SMTP server).
Upgrading to 6.2.2 didn't help either.
If this helps anyone. I have the same problem... but diffrent
fetchmail: 1 message for 0708399253 at wms.pro.euromail.se (folder
B&AOU-ge).
fetchmail: reading message 0708399253(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:1 of 1 (1593
header oc
tets) fetchmail: (3317849 body octets) fetchmail: socket error while
fetching f
rom pop3.pro.euromail.se
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: sleeping at Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:45:25 +0100 (CET)
But people are telling me it's due to fetchmail, the version I use, has
problems with large emails. So we are in the process of upgrading. But
this even happens in other sercumstances. Here's an exampele:
fetchmail: 13 messages (12 seen) for 0709446180 at wms.pro.euromail.se.
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:1 (38522
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:2 (63468
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:3 (63468
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:4 (75941
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:5 (50974
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:6 (88470
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:7 (38500
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:8 (38526
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:9 (163246
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:10 (100889
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:11 (63472
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:12 (63529
octets) not flushed
fetchmail: reading message 0709446180(_at_)wms(_dot_)pro(_dot_)euromail(_dot_)se:13 of 13 (565
header octets) fetchmail: socket error while fetching
from pop3.pro.euromail.se
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: sleeping at Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:32:36 +0000 (UTC)
And this results in an empty MIME file that is damaged. But I have
another SOCKET variant too. And here it is:
fetchmail: 13 messages (12 seen) for 0709446180 at wms.pro.euromail.se.
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop3.pro.euromail.se
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: sleeping at Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:32:37 +0100 (CET)
This error just appears and I've been thinking of that is must be the
ISP's server causing these problems. But the ISP have really improved
it's reliability lately but the SOCKET errors keep accuring not often
but still.
Then I'm not sure what an SOCKET error really means and are pointing at.
But that is perhapse someone that can help me understand.
Thanks for your time. With regards,
Rolf Eric
I've read R6 of the faq, but that doesn't seem to apply because I was able
to pop all the mail with Outlook Express. Why would fetchmail suddenly
stop working?
Couldn't find anything that really applied in FAQ or Mailarchives or google
either... would be great, if somebody could help - I might even be able to
post an example mail to the list if that would help.
Cheers, and thanks for any ideas,
Arndt