On Tuesday 01 August 2006 07:37, James Wilkinson wrote: > > How are you running fetchmail? From cron? If so, how often? > From cron, on a otherwise-lightly used server box for imap, every 5 minutes. Most of the time it's fine, but sometimes there are a number of these messages created over a period of 10-15 minutes. > The last error message sounds as though you're trying to run one > fetchmail before the previous one has finished. It took me seven minutes > today to download all my email, over a 1 Mb/s link to an Athlon 64 3200. > > Can you add -vv to your fetchmail command line for a bit, so you get > more logging output? That might help you spot the problem. > I suspect time-outs. Maybe Tiscali are sometimes slow to respond. Would that give the 'socket error' message? I wish I knew what that meant. I'd have a much better idea then of what was happening. Next time I see a bunch of these coming in I'll try the -vv from a console and see if it tells me any more. Anne
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