Re: Fetchmail problems

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 07:37, James Wilkinson wrote:

How are you running fetchmail? From cron? If so, how often?

From cron, on a otherwise-lightly used server box for imap, every 5 minutes.
Most of the time it's fine, but sometimes there are a number of these
messages created over a period of 10-15 minutes.

The last error message sounds as though you're trying to run one
fetchmail before the previous one has finished. It took me seven minutes
today to download all my email, over a 1 Mb/s link to an Athlon 64 3200.

Can you add -vv to your fetchmail command line for a bit, so you get
more logging output? That might help you spot the problem.

I suspect time-outs. Maybe Tiscali are sometimes slow to respond. Would that
give the 'socket error' message? I wish I knew what that meant. I'd have a
much better idea then of what was happening.

Next time I see a bunch of these coming in I'll try the -vv from a console and
see if it tells me any more.

Anne

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