[ILUG] Fetchmail

[Mark Page]

having problems with fetchmail under Debian Woody. Program hangs at 
collection of the first mail. The verbose output appears as follows:

mpage at debian:~$ fetchmail -v -p POP3 pop.esatclear.ie
fetchmail: removing stale lockfile
Enter password for mpage at pop.esatclear.ie:
fetchmail: 5.9.6 querying pop.esatclear.ie (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec  9 
19:11:57 2002: poll started
fetchmail: POP3< +OK ready 
fetchmail: POP3> USER mpage
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for mpage.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK mpage has 1 visible message (0 hidden) in 871 octets.
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 871
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 is the last read message.
1 message for mpage at escargot.esatclear.ie (871 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 visible messages (871 octets)
fetchmail: POP3< 1 871
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message follows
reading message mpage at escargot.esatclear.ie:1 of 1 (871 octets)

Help appreciated and prior apologies for the number of assists I've been 
sending this last few days.