Fetchmail socket problem
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jan 22 18:17:54 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Although the .fetchmailrc that I'm using for testing is a section from a
> working one on the old server, I'm getting what appears to be socket
> errors. I've googled and found lots of similar questions, but no
> answers. This is what happens:
>
> fetchmail --verbose --keep
> fetchmail: 6.2.5.5 querying mailbox.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Sun 22 Jan
> 2006 05:48:12 PM GMT: poll started
> fetchmail: 6.2.5.5 querying mailbox.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Sun 22 Jan
> 2006 05:48:12 PM GMT: poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
>
> This is the .fetchmail rc for that account:
>
> set logfile "~/fetchmail.log"
>
> poll mailbox.co.uk
> proto pop3 port 124
> via localhost
> user "pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount"
> pass "mypass"
> is anne at mylocal.lan fetchall
>
> Nothing is being written to ~/fetchmail.log.
>
> I know there is one test email in that mailbox - I've checked it by
> webmail.
>
> Can anyone help, please?
----
can you login to that via telnet?
telnet localhost 124
. login pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount mypass
that's a non-standard port and a non standard way of passing an account
login that you are using - would be good to know if you can login.
Craig
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