Sam Rosenfeld said: > My command of "fetchmail" yields an index of messages which hangs and > then after it times out (300 sec), gives the reason for the error as > "7". ?The manpage says this condition (fetchmail timing out) can occur > "while waiting for the server." > [SNIP] > 1666 messages (21 seen) for sam at wdn.com. > fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 FETCH 1:1666 RFC822.SIZE > fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2972) > fetchmail: IMAP< * 2 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 4961) > > SHORTENING because this list seems to have limited utility. > > fetchmail: IMAP< * 903 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2786) > fetchmail: IMAP< * 904 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 4089) > fetchmail: IMAP< * 905 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 2934) > fetchmail: terminated with signal 2 > fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. >
Try using the '-B' option to fetchmail to limit the number of messages retrieved in a single batch to some sane number like 300 or so. Looks like the IMAP server on the other end is dying after delivering nearly 1000 messages to you. G -- Gerald http://www.phorce1.com http://www.buskatiers.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
