Question

[Rick Stevens]

brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, jludwig wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:08, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Brad ,
>>>
>>>brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>More update - talked with Comcast today - it was using some chat 
>>>>software.  They swore that they didn't have a cap on down load 
>>>>attached file size (well they do have problems at 3M and suggest 
>>>>you break the file apart).
>>>>
>>>>So, I tried it using OUTLOOK on my sons computer and it 
>>>>downloaded a 300K file with no problems so it does seem to be 
>>>>with fetchmail or something else on my system.
>>>>
>>>>i'm runnim fetchmail (in a cron file) as 
>>>>	fetchmail -v -d 900 --fetchsizelimit 0
>>>
>>>Well you could try to use
>>>
>>>#fetchmail -v -v which according to the man page would produce
>>>
>>>more diagnostic information and possibly we could see there
>>>what's kicking .
>>>
>>>
>>>>I just added the filesizelimit but it doesn't seem to help (zero 
>>>>is suppose to mean no limit).
>>>>
>>>>Didn't have any other time to play.
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>Brad
>>>>
>>>
>>>Regards ,
>>>   Kostas
>>>
> 
> 
> 
> I want to thank everyone for your help, by using the suggestions 
> on this list I was able to track down where the problem probably 
> was and what was happening which helped me narrow down my web 
> search and I found the answer.
> 
> Apparently comcast is using a windows server and it's POP3 is not 
> standard so about 80K though an email download using POP3 it 
> sends an expected end of file.  To get around this you need to 
> add the fetchall commnad and now I get my full file downloaded.
> 
> One last question and I'll stop.  I've been running my fetchmail 
> command as a cron job because for some reason it doesn't want to 
> keep running using the daemon command.

Don't you need to run fetchmail as the user you want it to fetch mail
for?  Running it from the /etc/rc.d stuff will try to run it as the root
user and you probably don't have a "~root/.fetchmailrc" file.

> Reading what others posted about fetchmail I though I would 
> change my setup and run in rc.local using the command "fetchmail 
> -v -v -l0 -d900" but it doesn't seem to want to start there.

Don't use "-v"s when running as a daemon--daemons don't have a stdout.

> Where do you put your fetchmail command to get it running on 
> boot?

You could put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local but you'd need to prefix it
as

	su -c "fetchmail -d 900" normalusername
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