On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:08:22AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| While using fetchmail all goes OK until reaching message 91 and then
|
| 'reading message No 91'
| SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error
| fetchmail: socket error while fetching from (my isp)
| fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
|
| and then it fetchmail terminates.
What is your MDA? (the "mda" option in fetchmail.conf) Look in its
log file to see why it is failing.
| Since each message up to 91 has been downloaded and deleted on the
| host I do not understand how the same messages are downloaded on the
| next attempt and the above process repeated as many times as i dial
| in.
I think fetchmail doesn't delete the messages on the server until they
are delivered locally. I'm not sure if it does them in batches at all
or not.
| Is this me or the isp?
You.
HTH,
-D
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An anxious heart weighs a man down,
but a kind word cheers him up.
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