Re: Fetchmail locking up
It sounds like you're set to download only unread messages and these 11
have been marked as read even though the initial download didn't complete.
Try running a session explicitly telling fetchmail to get all messages.
I'm in Windows hell right now, so I can't tell you how to do that.
HTH
Bob
Quoting Patrick Kirk <patrick@kirks.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> For years now I've used fetchmail to get mail and now its suddenly
> stopped
> working.
>
> What happens is that fetchmail seems to freeze instead of flushing the
> account. Its set to pick up every minute...it takes several minutes on
> just
> one of my mailboxes and thus never actually gets any mail down.
>
> when this happens I see --fetchmail ----sendmail 578 or some such thing
> in
> pstree. I assume this is the number of attempts that failed.
>
> the output of fetchmail -v is...
>
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:10 (2400 octets) not
> flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:11 (2701 octets) not
> flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> TOP 12 99999999
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Top of message follows
> reading message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:12 of 12 (2326 octets)
> fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: can't raise the listener; falling back to
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
> %T#****************
>
> Interestingly, when it does work, there remain 11 messages that simply
> will
> not flush.
>
>
> fetchmail: POP3< 10 2400
> fetchmail: POP3< 11 2701
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:1 (5598 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:2 (3253 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:3 (2830 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:4 (3293 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:5 (2760 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:6 (2513 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:7 (2883 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:8 (3839 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:9 (5842 octets) not flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:10 (2400 octets) not
> flushed
> skipping message kirksnet@helta.dsvr.co.uk:11 (2701 octets) not
> flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Sayonara
>
> Has anyone any thoughts on how to remedy this? All help appreciated.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Patrick Kirk
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>
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