Quoting Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 06:53:37PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > > > But since two days ago, fetchmail does > > not work. A call to > > > > fetchmail -v > > > > lists the number of mails waiting, but > > refuses to download any of them. It > > starts on the first, gives a few dots ... > > and then quits. I can download mail > > from the POP3 server manually using mutt. > > It also appears that my outgoing mail > > is not reaching its destination.
> I had the same problem last year. It is a problem at your isp, not > with your fetchmail config. Depending on how helpful your isp is, > there are several ways to fix it. The basic problem is that your isp's > software has clobbered an email on his server in such a way that his > software won't deliver it to you when requested by fetchmail. If you > can delete that one email on his server, things will start moving > again. > > Maybe you can do this yourself via a web interface to your email. > I had to get a person at the isp to manually delete, because, for > the bad email, the web interface also didn't work. > > I suggest you try the web interface. If it works, problem solved. > If it doesn't work, complain about that to the live person and leave > Linux, etc., out of the discussion. Maybe it is worth mentioning that I have three times been hit in the last two weeks by the "mangled headers" problem---is this the problem you are speaking of? The symptom there was that fetchmail stopped with an error message. I could go in on the webmail interface, purge the offending e-mail (usually some obvious trash from yahoo), and everything worked again, as you say. But this time I am not getting the same error message from fetchmail, and the message it blocks on (always the first, never the third or the sixth, as before) is in many cases from a known reliable source---it is not a spam problem. So it does not appear to be a problem of deleting an e-mail. As I said, I download all the e-mail manually, but a few minutes later I am back in the soup again. Are you saying that their server is somehow stuck in a jammed state---would that affect only me and not others? Thanks for your time, Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]