At 14:04 24.1.2001, Kozman Balint wrote:
>Hi to everyone,
>
>I'm running a local mailserver behind a Sonic pro firewall. Outgoing
>messages are sent via exim to the smarthost outside with address revision.
>I use fetchmail to get messages from the mailserver outside via pop3.
>The problem is with fetchmail: sometimes when it gets defunct after
>downloading messages, it becomes a Zombie, and some minutes later when the
>new instance of fetchmail comes up, it stops working 'cos "another
>fetchmail is running in background" and this way users don't get their
>mails.
>Is this a kernel problem, or a bug of fetchmail, or what?
>(fetchmail gets started via cron)
>
>Thanks in advance, regards:
>
>Balint
I had samekind of problem when I used fetchmail. And it didn't
matter was it used as a daemon or as cron job. It also did
same thing both with POP and IMAP mail boxes.
I happened about day and half intervals. I'm not sure does
the interval matter. Mine was 1 minute.
Antti
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