[ILUG] Fetchmail

[Chris Higgins]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:46:39 +0000
John Madden <maddenj at skynet.ie> wrote:

> On (09/12/02 19:15), Mark Page didst pronounce:
> > 
> > having problems with fetchmail under Debian Woody. Program hangs at 
> > collection of the first mail. The verbose output appears as follows:
> > 
> I've seen problems where fetchmail couldn't fetch a mail for some
> reason or other. I've had to manually (either using www.mail2web.com
> or telnet mailserver 110) delete the message for fetchmail to collect
> any mails after the problematic one. 
> 
> You may just have to accept this and delete the message manually (it's
> probably spam anyway!! -- that's what's always caused me problems).

Make sure your local delivery system is working 
 (is your local smtp server working, is fetchmail hanging because
  sendmail/exim etc... is doing reverse lookups and taking ages )
> 
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> 
> John.
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