On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:45:29AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I had a similar problem > > > > It turns out that my ISP had some spam messages with a single "." on a line by > > itself. Instead of escaping these, it was transmitting then to me - which > > was causing fetchmail to think it had got to end of message, was therefore > > using a command to get the next one. The confused the ISP pop3 server and it > > closed the connection, this not acting on the delete commands it already had. > > Next time around it retrieved all the messages again. > > > > To get around it, I had to manually telnet into my ISPs pop3 server and issue > > the delete command manually for that message. > > > > In about 1400 spam messages on the server 2 had this problem. > > > > I also changed fetchmail to retrieve mail from my isp using IMAP. The delete > > commands are issued and acting upon every message so I am hoping I don't get > > the large backlog of messages that resulted from the last occurance. > > > > (This is the backup route to my mail, so I had not noticed it had happened > > because I had stopped receiving mail - but because, all of a sudden I > > realised I was seeing the same messages over and over again. By the time I > > had discovered it, there was 1400 messages stuck at my isp). > > > I don't think this is the source of my problem, because I'm using the > IMAP protocol and the messages download fine if I wait 10 or 15 > minutes; there never is any single message that is creating problems. > Given the error message 10, I think it is because fetchmail cannot > find an open smtp port. Why, I have no idea. Thanks, > Ric Some random thoughts... It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each message. - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? - if as a daemon, is smtp_accept_max set to anything? - if from inetd, are you spawning loads of exim processes and hitting a process limit? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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