Martin Brown wrote:
> I've been using 'fetchmail' to dl my mail to my rh6.1 system. I've never
> had any problem until a few days ago, and then from time-to-time I started
> getting the following, and slowly more and more often even though
> alternately fetchmail would work. Now, it's all errors, and fetchmail
> can't get dl any mail.
>
> Weird how the errors got worse and worse. Everything's on the same
> machine except for the machine that has the mail, and the firewall
> machine. No porblems with network connections. There's plenty of disk
> space and memory. Here's what I'm seeing:
>
> [mjbjr@localhost mjbjr]$ fetchmail
> 7 messages for mjbjr at shell9.ba.best.com (16465 octets).
> reading message 1 of 7 (579 octets) fetchmail: retained
> reading message 2 of 7 (2017 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost
> failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from shell9.ba.best.com
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
>
> It's always the same error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you.
try it with fetchmail -v -v
(really verbose) it may get you a little closer
I had problems with message that had a period in a line all by itself that caused
fetchmail to puke. I believe a period on a line by itself is what smtp sees as
the end of the message. I had to manaully delete the message with a mail reader
other than fetchmail. Then everything was cool.
Bret
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