Re: fetchmail
Some of these problems might be from the mail server, not the
fetchmail client. I know mail servers can do things like making a
complete copy of your spool file before + after processing. So there
can be quite a delay for them to get going.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:40:20PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Who's watching the watchmen?
>
> I still get problems intermittently with fetchmail pausing for a long
> time while getting the first messsage. I thought I'd fixed it by editing
> /etc/hosts but it still happens sometimes. At other times it works
> perfectly.
>
> Anthing else worth checking?
>
>
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