Hi all, For years now I've used fetchmail to get mail and now its suddenly stopped working.
What happens is that fetchmail seems to freeze instead of flushing the account. Its set to pick up every minute...it takes several minutes on just one of my mailboxes and thus never actually gets any mail down. when this happens I see --fetchmail ----sendmail 578 or some such thing in pstree. I assume this is the number of attempts that failed. the output of fetchmail -v is... skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10 (2400 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11 (2701 octets) not flushed fetchmail: POP3> TOP 12 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK Top of message follows reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12 of 12 (2326 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to /usr/sbin/sendmail %T#**************** Interestingly, when it does work, there remain 11 messages that simply will not flush. fetchmail: POP3< 10 2400 fetchmail: POP3< 11 2701 fetchmail: POP3< . skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 (5598 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 (3253 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 (2830 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4 (3293 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:5 (2760 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:6 (2513 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:7 (2883 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:8 (3839 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:9 (5842 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10 (2400 octets) not flushed skipping message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11 (2701 octets) not flushed fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< +OK Sayonara Has anyone any thoughts on how to remedy this? All help appreciated. -- Best regards, Patrick Kirk Telephone: 0870 011 8494 GSM: 07876 560 646 Web site: www.kirks.net
