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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