On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: > try running fetchmail with verbose options and see if the output tells > you any more... i would have suspected the firewall but it seems that > you have already connected so i don't know how that would be the > problem.
The firewall was up already for one month, but they might have changed something. But I rather don't believe in this reason, either. Martin PS: And here is the verbose output from fetchmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /usr/bin/fetchmail -p POP3 -va -t 60 -u fluch rock.helsinki.fi Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fetchmail: 5.5.3 querying rock.helsinki.fi (protocol POP3) at Mon Dec 11 01:11:26 2000 fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 rock.helsinki.fi v4.47 server ready fetchmail: POP3> USER fluch fetchmail: POP3< +OK User name accepted, password please fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK Mailbox open, 3 messages fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3 21819 3 messages for fluch at rock.helsinki.fi (21819 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK Mailbox scan listing follows fetchmail: POP3< 1 16420 fetchmail: POP3< 2 1401 fetchmail: POP3< 3 3998 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 16420 octets reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from rock.helsinki.fi fetchmail: Query status=7 (ERROR) fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: normal termination, status 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public GnuPG-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]