Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Russ Pitman
Hmm-- Thanks, I will put fetchpop on the system and check it out next time fetchmail falls over. If it works, maybe do some stirring :-)) On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Russ Pitman wrote: > > > I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaroun

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Unfortunately, there isn't a fetchpop package anymore. I wonder > when it was removed from the distribution. Well, here's a strange thing. Not only is fetchpop gone, you can't even find it in the ML archive. A Google search t

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-26 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Russ Pitman wrote: > I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaround is to > read the mailbox on the server from netscape and delete all mail with > "unidentified sender" in the address. These are always empty. > > I asked on the fetchmail-friends list if it is possible to te

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Russ Pitman
I have that problem on a fairly regular basis. My workaround is to read the mailbox on the server from netscape and delete all mail with "unidentified sender" in the address. These are always empty. I asked on the fetchmail-friends list if it is possible to tell fetchmail to disregard th

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Martin J . Hillyer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Phillips wrote: > Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. > > Somewhere around a week ago, fetchmail started hanging on me. After > fairly thorough investigation I'm still not sure just what changed to > cause this, or even whether it's client side or se

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:25:33PM -0700, Jim Ray wrote: > I would delete that message manually and see if the problem goes away. I > have seen certain messages cause this problem but I have never figured out > why this happens. > > jim ray > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Ph

Re: painful mail/fetchmail problems

2000-07-25 Thread Jim Ray
I would delete that message manually and see if the problem goes away. I have seen certain messages cause this problem but I have never figured out why this happens. jim ray On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 07:53:20PM +, Paul Phillips wrote: > Under debian frozen, kernel 2.2.15. > > Somewhere arou