Re: Fetchmail Problems with Retrieving Mail

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

Mark Wagnon <mark_wagnon@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi all-
> 
> Well fetchmail seems to be acting up on me here. I'm running 5.9.6-2,
> and haven't figured out how to run it as a system wide daemon yet, 

Setup a system-wide /etc/fetchmailrc file.  See the stuff at the top of
/etc/init.d/fetchmail.

> so I'm still doing the fetchmail -d 300 when I log in. Anyway, for
> some reason it stopped retrieving mail. I killed the process and tried
> running it with the -vvv options to see what I could see. Well, it
> would see a bunch of messages (around 220) and crap out when it
> started to retrieve them. I wish I had saved the output, but I didn't
> (sorry). I did a little looking around in the archives and found a
> reference to an issue with it when retrieving a lot of messages. I use
> my Yahoo mail account for the list so I just logged in via http and
> deleted a bunch of the list messages. I then tried running fetchmail
> again, and it worked like a champ, grabbing the 5 messages with ease.
> 
> My question is...anyone else experiencing this and know how to address
> it?

It's probably a problem with yahoo.  Use a real email account.

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Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>