On 21 July 2000 at 8:51, Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm experiencing odd problems retrieving my mail using fetchmail on > debian frozen. No matter what options I give, the last message always > hangs. The size of the message is correctly displayed, and I can see > the message in /var/spool/mqueue, but it never ends, continuing > sending just spaces, megas of spaces. When I kill fetchmail the smtp > server (windows nt) keeps the mail box locked for an uncomfortable > long time, but nobody else seems to complain about this problem. I > tested the latest version of fetchmail and the same result. Is this a > kernel (2.2.16) or a sendmail issue (I'd liked to avoid messing around > with sendmail)? I used the verbose option but couldn't get any clue.
Could you perhaps provide a little more information about your fetchmail setup and sendmail configuration? As for me, I've never had problems with fetchmail for POP. My fetchmailrc looks like this: set daemon 60 poll studentmail.imsa.edu proto pop3 user "tessone" pass "PASSWORD" fetchall Chris -- Christopher Tessone Computer Programmer Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy Learning-at-a-Distance Program http://www.imsa.edu/~tessone/ GnuPG Key: http://www.imsa.edu/~tessone/mykey.asc
