Message: 4
From: "Lucky Me" <neiman007(_at_)hotpop(_dot_)com>
To: <fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:24:04 -0600
Subject: [fetchmail]Socket Error
Using Fetchmail 6.2.5
Am currently using SuSe Linux 9.1, but have also tried SuSe 8.1 and Fedora
Core 2.
On a tip I have already tried "echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_timestamps"
with no success.
And from the results of a google search, I have tried adjusting the mtu and
mru settings in the /etc/ppp/options file with no success.
I am using Fetchmail with Postfix as the MTA. When fetchmail is working, it
works great and postfix drops the mail in the correct inbox. The problem is
that fetmail will hang up on an email and give a:
"fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.server.com".
No mail will be retrieved after the socket error. My .fetchmailrc file
created with fetchmailconf looks like this:
set postmaster "postmaster"
set nobouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
poll mail.server.com with proto POP3
user 'mailuser' there with password '******' is "mailuser" here
postfix will also give a message after the fetchmail socket error of:
"postfix/smtpd[3695]: lost connection after DATA from localhost[127.0.0.1]"
I noticed it hung on the same spam message two different times, so maybe it
is a problem with the type or formating of the email.
A windows mail client has no problem retrieving the mail from the POP3
server.
My Linux box is behind a firewall, are there any ports I should open or
forward to the Linux box to diagnose the problem?
Any help is appreciated.
Message: 7
To: fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: [fetchmail]Socket Error
From: Matthias Andree <ma(_at_)dt(_dot_)e-technik(_dot_)uni-dortmund(_dot_)de>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:43:13 +0100
"Lucky Me" <neiman007(_at_)hotpop(_dot_)com> writes:
Using Fetchmail 6.2.5
Are you still using fetchmail or have you switched to getmail instead,
given your post on that list an hour later?
postfix will also give a message after the fetchmail socket error of:
"postfix/smtpd[3695]: lost connection after DATA from
localhost[127.0.0.1]"
This information isn't complete...
I noticed it hung on the same spam message two different times, so maybe
it
is a problem with the type or formating of the email.
...but such things can happen, when, for instance, the POP3 server fails
to send a proper message end marker. There may be other problems, but to
debug this, we need a copy of the mail or session captured with
"tcpdump -w debug.dump host pop3.example.org".
You MUST change your password before uploading the file to some FTP or
web server. Please post only the URL, not the whole file.
My Linux box is behind a firewall, are there any ports I should open or
forward to the Linux box to diagnose the problem?
As long as it doesn't firewall 127.0.0.1, it should be fine.
--
Matthias Andree
First of all thank you for your reply. I have been experimenting a little
with getmail because I have been struggling with this fetchmail socket error
problem for about 3 week. I would rather use fetchmail. It seems a little
more straight forward and easier to configure. And as I mentioned before,
when it works, it works very well for me. And I have found that the
fetchmailconf utility is very helpful.
The output I get with the "tcpdump -w debug.dump host mail.server.com" is
located here:
http://wpffl.netfirms.com/debug.dump.txt
The web host inserts banner text in the top of the message so please
disregard that. I use the "tcpdump -r debug.dump" command to format the
output in readable text. I closed the "tcpdump" process when I received the
socket error, so you can see that info at the end of the file.
The section of the log file created when I used the "fetchmail -v -v -L
/var/log/mail" command it located here:
http://wpffl.netfirms.com/fetchmail.txt
Again please ignore the web host inserted banner info. You can see the
socket error info at the end of the log file.
I have tried to change the info that may present a security risk.
Again, I appreciate your help.