Re: [LI] incoming email problem

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <r.suresh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, thus spake New Star Service Co.:

> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error which fetching from pop3.globalctg.net
> fetchmail: query status=10

>From man fetchmail (1)

> > Error 10: Fetchmail failed while trying to do an SMTP port 
> > open or transaction

Several people faced that problem yesterday :)  Maybe we can blame VSNL
for that?  I downloaded my mail from windoze for the first time in several
weeks.  It worked there.  In Linux, I played around with various things,
including changing my hostname, it suddenly started working :)

My prev post -

> Works now.  I tried restarting sendmail, but no damned use :( So, I
> changed the hostname of my box to quizzer.kcircle.com (something I'd
> been meaning to do for ages) and suddenly it worked (?!?!?!)

Thus spake Simanta Handique"

>  I am facing a lot of problems with Fetchmail. I keep getting synchro
> errors and the fetchmail progarm terminates prematurely.  If I have
> say 15 messages to

Man fetchmail ;)  There are lots of options available, including the -t
(timeout) flag which you can tweak for how many seconds.  Adjust to make
it something like 100 seconds instead of the standard 1 minute (I think).

For those with huge amounts of mail on the server - check out the -e
(expunge) flag - fetchmail will delete mail periodically instead of
deleting mails only when the quit command is issued.  With large mailboxes
this is a huge hassle, so be careful and use it sparingly.

hth

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