This is the message you get when fetchmail times out without being able to contact the server. Try telnetting to port 993 (the IMAP port) of the server to see if it reachable. I tried that here and got "connection refused" although I could connect to the POP3 port (110).
Bob On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 11:10:30AM -0600, matt garman wrote: > > Recently I can no longer download my email with fetchmail. When I run > "fetchmail -v" I get the following: > > fetchmail: 5.2.3 querying ews.uiuc.edu (protocol IMAP) at Fri, 14 Jan \ > 2000 11:07:01 -0600 (CST) > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from ews.uiuc.edu > fetchmail: Query status=2 > fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 > > And here is my ~/.fetchmailrc > > poll ews.uiuc.edu > proto IMAP > user <my username> > pass <my password> > fetchall > flush > > And this has worked perfectly for months, i.e. I haven't changed > anything and it's suddently broken. > > It almost looks to me as if it's an error on the machine where I > download my email just because fetchmail doesn't get very far, but > that's only a guess. > > Any ideas? > > MG > > -- > Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "And through the window in the wall > Come streaming in on sunlight wings > A million bright ambassadors of morning." > --Pink Floyd, "Echoes" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (ex-W6SWE) (RN2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
