Very strange fetchmail problem

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

Hello!

since a few days I experience a quite strange problem with fetchmail on my
woody system.

It started with the following messages in the log files:

Dec  9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: 15 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (39776 octets). 
Dec  9 16:08:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: reading message 1 of 15 (2462 octets) 
Dec  9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting for listener to respond. 
Dec  9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: client/server synchronization error while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi 
Dec  9 16:13:47 seneca fetchmail[27142]: Query status=7 (ERROR) 

First I thought, that it is a problem with the server and ignored the
messages. But the problem remained and so I got curious. Here is the
observations I made:

* I get the same problems when I try to fetch mail from other POP3/IMAP
servers.

* I am able to successfull read my mail from rock.helsinki.fi  via pine
and it's IMAP capability.

These two observation make me believe, that the different servers I tried
are ok and that it is a problem on my side.

* Different versions of fetchmail (e.g. 5.3.3-1.1 from potato and
the most recent 5.5.3-1 from woody) give the same result.

* I get the same problem wether I use POP3 or IMAP (rock.helsinki.fi has
both, a IMAP and a POP3 server runing)

My /etc/fetchmailrc file looks like:


   set daemon 7200 # Poll at 120-minute intervals

   defaults
           fetchall

   poll rock.helsinki.fi with protocol POP3:
           user fluch is mfluch here
           password foobar;


Any ideas? My computer is behind a quite restrictive firewall, can this
cause some problems?

Martin

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