fetchmail socket error

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

I have been getting this error, and I'm not sure what it means or what is 
wrong.
I have fetchmail setup to pull the email from my domain accounts to local 
users. I set this up in a fetchmailrc file.

this morning I noticed there was no new email, but when I went to webmail ( 
squirrelmail) on my hosts servers, there was email . This is the error 
message I am getting in /var/log/syslog:

Aug 10 16:31:47 paulandcilla fetchmail[16965]: timeout after 300 seconds 
waiting to connect to server email_host.com. 
Aug 10 16:31:47 paulandcilla fetchmail[16965]: socket error while fetching 
from my_user_email+my_host.com@email_host.com 
Aug 10 16:31:47 paulandcilla fetchmail[16965]: Query status=2 (SOCKET) 

mail.err has similar messages:
Aug 10 16:31:47 paulandcilla fetchmail[16965]: socket error while fetching 
from my_user_email+my_host.com@email_host.com 

 
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Paul Cartwright
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Registered Ubuntu User #12459