Re: unusal fetchmail error

[Antti Tolamo <antti@tola.org>]

At 14:04 24.1.2001, Kozman Balint wrote:

> Hi to everyone,
>
> I'm running a local mailserver behind a Sonic pro firewall. Outgoing
> messages are sent via exim to the smarthost outside with address revision.
> I use fetchmail to get messages from the mailserver outside via pop3.
> The problem is with fetchmail: sometimes when it gets defunct after
> downloading messages, it becomes a Zombie, and some minutes later when the
> new instance of fetchmail comes up, it stops working 'cos "another
> fetchmail is running in background" and this way users don't get their
> mails.
> Is this a kernel problem, or a bug of fetchmail, or what?
> (fetchmail gets started via cron)
>
> Thanks in advance, regards:
>
> Balint

I had samekind of problem when I used fetchmail. And it didn't
matter was it used as a daemon or as cron job. It also did
same thing both with POP and IMAP mail boxes.

I happened about day and half intervals. I'm not sure does
the interval matter. Mine was 1 minute.

Antti