on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Tom Schuetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a dialup connection with mutt, exim and fetchmail. Ougoing mail is > fine. > When I try to fetchmail, it goes through the usual POP3 dialog, until the > first "RETR", at which point > it says, > > "Fetching message 1 of N, N Octets ." > > and then stays that way until it times out after five minutes. The > error given is "Client/Server synchronization error." > > The success of the logon up to that point makes me doubt that the > problem is my .fetchmailrc.
There are two sources I've found for similar problems:
1. Your exim (or other local delivery MTA) isn't running, isn't being
invoked properly, or is unable to start for some reason. Check
this first.
2. Malformed mail. I've had several recent instances in which
malformed spam has blocked my downloads for email at work (as the
admin, I collect 50-100 pieces of spam daily). Spam seems more
prone than valid email to being malformed. I'm shocked,
shocked.... The fix in this case is to manually delete the
offending mail. If you don't have shell access to the mail server
(as the admin, I.... ;-), you'll have to scrap together enough
info on the POP mail protocol to list and delete messages. I've
posted on this in the past (don't recall if it was this group or
elsewhere), though I believe the appropriate RFC is the
authoritative source.
Peace.
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