[LI] Re: fetchmail keeps dying

[subb3@xxxxxxx]

> 
> My fetchmail keeps dying every 10 minutes or so. It was working
> fine until yesterday. I can't figure out why it is dying it keeps
> dying so often. It is run in daemon mode. This is the command line
> I have been using.
>  
> fetchmail -a -s -K -d 900
>  
> Any explanation, why fetchmail keeps dying.
> 

Thanks for all those who replied. The problem was a combination
of fetchmail version and my MDA. I have upgraded fetchmail to 5.1.0
and fixed my MDA scripts. fetchmail works a lot better now.

One of the items in the logs, I have noticed is that there are some
very big mail files on my pop server. How can I delete such files
without downloading? I don't want to download anything over 5K octets.
These files are 20K+ octets and fecthmail timesout trying to get this
mail. These big files are part of the problem, why fetchmail is timing
out during the fetch operation.

Subba Rao
subb3@xxxxxxx
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available.  Please search
the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question
to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.