[SLE] Fetchmail Socket Errors
From: L. Mark Stone (LMStone_at_RNoME.com)
Date: 11/07/03
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To: Suse Mail <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 09:29:03 -0500
I'm running into problems with fetchmail 6.2.3 included in SuSE Pro 9.0
and installed on my personal workstation. It generates frequent socket
errors with only one of the three POP servers from which I pull email.
If I pull the mail down via POP using Evolution, I never see this
problem (but then, I lose the ability to have Spamassassin delete spam
mails before they hit my Evolution Inbox, which, given the volume of
mail is very important to me; one mailbox sees about 30% of its traffic
as spam).
The fetchmail home page indicates that 6.2.5 has some bug fixes in it
and a new configuration parm that should ameliorate or eliminate this
problem. This updated version of fetchmail is not available via YaST or
APT, and I had problems compiling it from source.
The connection between my workstation and the mailserver is very clean,
with an average 42ms ping time that doen't deviate by more than 3 ms
that I can see.
So, I'd like to know if anyone can recommend changes to my .fetchmailrc
file that will help.
First, here's the relevant output from running ~/fetchmail -v -d0
--nosyslog after killing the fetchmail daemon:
reading message lmstone@mail.lmstone.com:82 of 112 (5519 octets)
#******************************************************procmail: [5561]
Fri Nov 7 08:51:56 2003
procmail: Assigning "PATH=/usr/bin:/bin"
procmail: Assigning "MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail"
procmail: Assigning "DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/lmstone"
procmail: Assigning "LOGFILE=/home/lmstone/procmail.log"
procmail: Opening "/home/lmstone/procmail.log"
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.lmstone.com
fetchmail: 6.2.3 querying mail.lmstone.com (protocol POP3) at Fri 07 Nov
2003 08:51:56 AM EST: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
To be clear, although the log says this (and all preceeding messages)
were deleted, in fact fetchmail does not delete them until all 100+
messages are pulled down from the POP server (which, in this case,
hasn't happened). But, sometimes these messages do get passed on to
procmail, so the next time fetchmail runs, I will find duplicates in my
Inbox--and this morning I found several messages duplicated a huge
number of times, because fetchmail runs every two minutes. BTW, I pull
probably 1,500 emails a day from this POP server during workdays.
Here's the relevant portion of my /home/lmstone/.fetchmailrc file for
this POP server (with the usernames and passwords changed!) Note that my
or your mailer may have created unintended wordwraps in the file...
# Configuration created Wed Nov 5 21:06:11 2003 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "lmstone"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 120
poll mail.lmstone.com via mail.lmstone.com
with proto POP3 uidl
user 'real_username_changed' there with password
'real_password_changed' is 'lmstone' here options fetchall
mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T'
Also, if I remove the options "uidl" and "fetchall", fetchmail segfaults
after pulling down the message list. If I remove the option "fetchall",
but keep the option "uidl" (or vica versa), I still get the problem.
Any help or pointers are always gratefully appreciated!
Thanks!
Mark
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