[ale] Messages hanging fetchmail

[Joe Knapka]

Never mind, I should've read the fetchmail FAQ more closely.

Thanks,

-- Joe

Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> writes:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Long time no post... How's things?
> 
> Anyway. I'm running fetchmail 6.2.5 to get mail from several POP
> maildrops. Occasionally a message will turn up that fetchmail cannot
> retrieve. When this happens, fetchmail tries to retrieve the message,
> but eventually times out with:
> 
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop.earthlink.net
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> 
> It then abandons the exchange without deleting any of the messages it
> successfully retrieved, which is a bugger because the next time it
> connects to the server it gets the same five or ten or a hundred
> messages AGAIN, and my local mailbox then fills up with many, many
> copies of the messages prior to the one that causes the problem.  The
> only solution I've got so far is to manually log in to the POP server
> and delete the offending message; as soon as the "problem" message is
> deleted, fetchmail can get the rest of the messages. This symptom does
> not match any of the "hang" symptoms described in the fetchmail FAQ.
> 
> Interestingly, I have also had this problem on occasion when using
> Netscape or Mozilla Messenger to retrieve mail. That would seem to
> suggest that the problem lies on the server end, but I'm
> pretty sure (not 100% certain) that I've seen the problem with
> multiple mail servers.
> 
> Anyone seen this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe
> Joseph Knapka   j k n a p k a at k n e u r o . n e t
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