I wanted to repost this, as I fear I may have broken protocal with my last
response.
"Matthias Andree" <ma(_at_)dt(_dot_)e-technik(_dot_)uni-dortmund(_dot_)de>
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?
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.
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...
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 - Please ignore the banner text that
is added to the top of the page by this web host provider.
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.
The output I get with the "tcpdump -w debug.dump host mail.server.com" is
located here:
http://wpffl.netfirms.com/debug.dump.txt - Again, please ignore the banner
text that is added to the top of the page by this web host provider.
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.
Again, I appreciate your help.