From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 11:14:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nettoll.com (matrix.fr.uu.net [212.155.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2BD37BB24 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from usebsd@free.fr) Received: by smtp.nettoll.com; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:09:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000809201359.025285e0@pop.free.fr> X-Sender: usebsd@pop.free.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:19:30 +0200 To: Allan Peak From: mouss Subject: Re: fetchmail Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000809032749.21944.qmail@web1610.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG forget my last mail, then! try specifying a longer timeout ('-t' option). your connection to the pop server might be slow, or you have some large messages. if you still have problems, use command line: # telnet popserver 110 user yourlogin pass yourpass list you'l have the list of your messages, and the sizes. you can see start of the messages, by typing: top NUMBER LINES (NUMBER is the number of the message, and LINES is the number of lines after the headers, so you can se the headers using 0). if there are very large messages, and if you don't need them, just delete them del NUMBER anyway, this will show you if the connection is slow. At 20:27 08/08/00 -0700, Allan Peak wrote: >This time I typed fetchmail -u apeak_2000 >pop.mail.yahoo.com and it said something about a >"socket error" and it seemed to copy 1 or 2 messages >but gave me a bunch of lines that said "skipping >message xxx not flushed". It recognized how many >messages I had but only copied the latest. > Allan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message