Re: fetchmail socket error

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-08-10 15:36, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> 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 

The same think occasionally happens to me.  Sometimes the messages 
eventually gets transferred, but sometimes I have to use this python 
script to delete the offending message from the POP server.

import getpass, poplib, string, sys
import re
import readline

################

def check_re(d, patt_re, patt,  s):
    mo = patt_re.search(s)
    if mo:
        d[patt] = s
    return d

################

M = poplib.POP3('pop.east.cox.net')

#M.set_debuglevel(2)
try:
    M.user(sys.argv[1])
except:
    x = sys.exc_info ()[1]
    print 'login failed'
    print x
    sys.exit()
try:
    M.pass_(sys.argv[2])
except:
    print sys.exc_info ()[1]
    sys.exit()

from_pattern = re.compile("^from\:")
subj_pattern = re.compile("^subject\:")
date_pattern = re.compile("^date\:")
msft1_pattern = re.compile(\
       "^content-disposition: attachment; filename=")

try:
    w = M.list()
except:
    print sys.exc_info ()[1]
    sys.exit()

print w[0]
print w[1]
print w[2]
size_array = w[1]
numMessages = len(size_array)
print 'Num emails ', numMessages
for i in range(1, numMessages+1):
    d = {'from':'','subj':'','date': '','attach': '','haggis': ''}
    b = ['==============================================',\
         '==============================================']
    x = M.top(i, 20)
    a = string.split(size_array[i-1], ' ')
    ndx = int(a[0])
    bcnt = int(a[1])
    b.append(('%d   %d' % (ndx, bcnt)))
    for y in x[1]:
        y1 = y.lower()
        d = check_re(d, from_pattern, 'from', y1)
        d = check_re(d, subj_pattern, 'subj', y1)
        d = check_re(d, date_pattern, 'date', y1)
        d = check_re(d, msft1_pattern, 'attach', y1)
    for c in b:
        print c
    print d['from']
    print d['subj']
    print d['date']
    print d['attach']

    r = raw_input('Action?[_D_elete,_P_rint,_S_kip,_Q_uit] -> ')
    if r in ('D', 'd'):
        M.dele(i)
    if r in ('P', 'p'):
        txt = M.retr(i)[1]
        for i in txt:
            print i
    if r in ('Q', 'q'):
        M.quit()
        sys.exit()


M.quit()

print '============================================================'
print '============================================================'
print '============================================================'
print '============================================================'



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