Re: [LI] Re: fetchmail keeps dying

["Bilal Muddassir" <noorh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

telnet pop3.your.isp.com 110
user username
pass yourpwd
list
[spot the big mail file from its size and check its serial no]
dele serial#

I hope that helps

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <subb3@xxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 1:12 AM
Subject: [LI] Re: fetchmail keeps dying


> > 
> > 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/
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