* dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: >> While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then >> >> 'reading message No 91' >> SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error >> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my isp) >> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) >> >> and then it fetchmail terminates. > > What is your MDA? (the "mda" option in fetchmail.conf) Look in its > log file to see why it is failing. > >> Since each message up to 91 has been downloaded and deleted on the >> host I do not understand how the same messages are downloaded on the >> next attempt and the above process repeated as many times as i dial >> in. > > I think fetchmail doesn't delete the messages on the server until they > are delivered locally. I'm not sure if it does them in batches at all > or not.
That is correct. Use 'fetchmail -B 90' to download *and delete* the first 90 messages before doing anything else. Then read the manpage, it actually has a lot of usefull information, some of which mentioned sockets. Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343 ``Oh, how I wish `undo' was ported to everyday life.''
