I would delete that message manually and see if the problem goes away. I have seen certain messages cause this problem but I have never figured out why this happens.
jim ray On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +0000, Paul Phillips wrote: > Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. > > Somewhere around a week ago, fetchmail started hanging on me. After > fairly thorough investigation I'm still not sure just what changed to > cause this, or even whether it's client side or server; though, I think > it's something on the server, because I didn't change anything that I'm > aware of, and a different pop server looks to be working. If it is the > server, I still need to work around it... > > The behavior is this: > > orbit:~> fetchmail --all > 79 messages for paulp at pop.ricochet.net (325997 octets). > reading message 1 of 79 (3312 octets) . [and now hang here] > > Eventually it times out. The first message gets delivered locally at that > point, but not deleted from the server. I thought it might have something > to do with the message itself, but I manually deleted the first one that > caused this from the pop server and it didn't help. > > When I telnet to the pop server directly, everything looks fine; messages > will display, are properly dot-terminated, etc. > > Any clues appreciated. > > -- > Paul Phillips | The good Christian should beware of mathematicians [...] > Everyman | The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine > slap pi uphill! | man in the bonds of Hell. -- St. Augustine > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Jim Ray Lead System Engineer LinuxMall.com
