On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 12:21:15PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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).
I get the same results as you when telnetting to ports 110 and 993. But I
tried to use fetchmail with POP3 and got the same error. I also tried
fetchmail with "proto AUTO" just for kicks, and it also failed.
> 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
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