It sounds like you're set to download only unread messages and these 11 have been marked as read even though the initial download didn't complete.
Try running a session explicitly telling fetchmail to get all messages. I'm in Windows hell right now, so I can't tell you how to do that. HTH Bob Quoting Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
