Oliver,
Hey man! that's great!! way to hang in there. Feels good, doesn't it?
Now...where'd I put that ballpeen hammer?...
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:18:33 -0600, Olly wrote:
>
> > Are you familiar with socket problems...what would normally be
> >a logical approach for repair of sticky sockets? or trouble shooting ?
> >
> > The man fetchmail says "treat it as an unrecoverable error"
> >well....I must do some recovery...somehow...
> --------------
> Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:38:29
>
> I got it Mark...heeheee
> I am happy to report
> that the problem is cured and I can download mail....and it
> saves<grin>
>
> Here is the fix:
>
> from a FaQ written by Eric S. Raymond, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> R7. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.
>
> Check the MTU value in your PPP interface reported by /sbin/ifconfig.
> If it's over 600,
> change it in your PPP options file. (/etc/ppp/options on my box). Here
> are option values
> that work:
>
>
> mtu 552
> mru 552
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> I added the above options to my /etc /ppp/options file and it
> works nicely....
> I do not profess to even a slight knowledge of the intricate
> relationship between ppp and the various mailprogram protocals....But
> it seems to me that a mtu value in the ppp interface is in fact a ppp
> related problem.
>
> At any rate, the problem is cured and I am getting mail...hopefully
> this may help someone else, for this is not an easy problem for a
> beginner to research......I could not determine if the difficulty
> originated with worldnet server., my programs ,,or a combination of
> the two?
> But now it is over...until the next problem 8-)
>
> Thank you for your help and patience.
>
> Olly P
>
>
>
