Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:12:21 +0000 From: David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> To: David Raistrick <keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fetchmail hangs - any other possibilities? Message-ID: <20000926171221.A502@www3.pacific-pages.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261651390.48495-100000@damoe.wireless-isp.net>; from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:53:58PM -0400 References: <200009261516.PAA00761@www3.pacific-pages.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009261651390.48495-100000@damoe.wireless-isp.net>
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:53:58PM -0400, David Raistrick wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, David Banning wrote:
>
> > I am used to using a pop server like popclient
> > where I can put my mail server name, password, and
> > mail login on the command line. How do you
>
> You need a pop3 /client/ not a server.
OK.
> Heh. Welcome to the club...What exactly is the problem you are having
> with fetchmail?
I have 4 pop mail accounts, each with a different mail server.
Fetchmail works fine with 3 of the 4.
The fourth, is a company called mailbank who specializes in selling
mail boxes. They sell be my mail address david@banning.com
I get my mail fetchmail getmail.banning.com
which works fine from my palm pilot, windows, etc.
Through unix, initially I could not collect mail - I got an error
when the LAST command was issued.
I solved that problem by using $ fetchmail -U getmail.banning.com
which for some reason does not cause the other end to
issue a LAST command.
my .fetchmailrc contains nothing special;
skip getmail.banning.com:
protocol pop3;
username david;
pass ******;
now issuing a $ fetchmail -v -U getmail.banning.com
gets me:
fetchmail: 5.3.0 querying getmail.banning.com (protocol POP3) at Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:05:18 +0000 (GMT)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK <2282.970002483@mail.banning.com>
fetchmail: POP3> USER david
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 0
fetchmail: No mail for david at getmail.banning.com
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
then it hangs. A $ ps ax | grep fetch
gives me the stuck process:
611 p3 I+ 0:00.09 fetchmail -v -U getmail.banning.com
any ideas?
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