painful mail/fetchmail problems
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 server; though, I think
it's something on the server, because I didn't change anything that I'm
aware of, and a different pop server looks to be working. If it is the
server, I still need to work around it...
The behavior is this:
orbit:~> fetchmail --all
79 messages for paulp at pop.ricochet.net (325997 octets).
reading message 1 of 79 (3312 octets) . [and now hang here]
Eventually it times out. The first message gets delivered locally at that
point, but not deleted from the server. I thought it might have something
to do with the message itself, but I manually deleted the first one that
caused this from the pop server and it didn't help.
When I telnet to the pop server directly, everything looks fine; messages
will display, are properly dot-terminated, etc.
Any clues appreciated.
--
Paul Phillips | The good Christian should beware of mathematicians [...]
Everyman | The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a
<paulp@go2net.com> | covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine
slap pi uphill! | man in the bonds of Hell. -- St. Augustine
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