Hello!
since a few days I experience a quite strange problem with fetchmail on my
woody system.
It started with the following messages in the log files:
Dec 9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: 15 messages for fluch at
rock.helsinki.fi (39776 octets).
Dec 9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: reading message 1 of 15 (2462 octets)
Dec 9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for
listener to respond.
Dec 9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: client/server synchronization error
while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi
Dec 9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: Query status=7 (ERROR)
First I thought, that it is a problem with the server and ignored the
messages. But the problem remained and so I got curious. Here is the
observations I made:
* I get the same problems when I try to fetch mail from other POP3/IMAP
servers.
* I am able to successfull read my mail from rock.helsinki.fi via pine
and it's IMAP capability.
These two observation make me believe, that the different servers I tried
are ok and that it is a problem on my side.
* Different versions of fetchmail (e.g. 5.3.3-1.1 from potato and
the most recent 5.5.3-1 from woody) give the same result.
* I get the same problem wether I use POP3 or IMAP (rock.helsinki.fi has
both, a IMAP and a POP3 server runing)
My /etc/fetchmailrc file looks like:
set daemon 7200 # Poll at 120-minute intervals
defaults
fetchall
poll rock.helsinki.fi with protocol POP3:
user fluch is mfluch here
password foobar;
Any ideas? My computer is behind a quite restrictive firewall, can this
cause some problems?
Martin
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