Re: fetchmail

[Rino Mardo <helixfish@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:24:33AM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>     So this is interesting. I've had fetchmail running as a daemon for about 2
> weeks, and I wake up this morning and find that I have zero email waiting. I
> check the log, and I see entries like this:
> 
> fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying mail.storm.ca (protocol POP3) at Wed, 18 Oct 2000
> 07:20:01 -0400 (EDT)
> fetchmail: fetchmail: POP3 connection to mail.storm.ca failed: temporary name
> server error.
> 
>     So I do an nslookup on storm's mail server, and it's there. So, I kill
> fetchmail and restart it, and find 400+ messages waiting. 
> 
>     Anyone know what would cause this "temporary name server error?"
> 
>     Mike
> 
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> Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@storm.ca>
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> 

it means either the name was not resolving at the exact time and date OR
that it timedout while checking for mails.

sounds crazy i know but that's my experience with fetchmail having used it for
over two years now.  anyway, i'm open to more reasonable explanation.

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