From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 14:19:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www3.pacific-pages.com (www3.pacific-pages.com [192.41.48.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173FD37B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:19:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d.tracker ([216.191.75.75]) by www3.pacific-pages.com (8.8.5) id PAA02094; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:19:17 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from david@localhost) by d.tracker (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA00720; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:16:32 GMT (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:12:21 +0000 From: David Banning To: David Raistrick Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fetchmail hangs - any other possibilities? Message-ID: <20000926171221.A502@www3.pacific-pages.com> Reply-To: David Banning References: <200009261516.PAA00761@www3.pacific-pages.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:53:58PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message