Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch:
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote:
reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets)
fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond.
I don't think your problem is with fetchmail, but with whatever is waiting
on port 25 to receive the post from fetchmail. Sendmail/Exim/Postfix
usually lurk there to receive the goods. Which MTA are you running? What do
you get if you do
$telnet localhost 25
?
I run postfix and get...
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 glynthebearded.localdomain ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:18:53
+
You should get something similar if the MTA is set up properly.
HTH
Glyn M
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SOLVED: Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:15:48AM +0200, thus spake Martin Fluch: On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Timmy Douglas wrote: reading message 1 of 3 (16420 octets) fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds waiting for listener to respond. I don't think your problem is with fetchmail, but with whatever is waiting on port 25 to receive the post from fetchmail. Sendmail/Exim/Postfix usually lurk there to receive the goods. Which MTA are you running? What do you get if you do $telnet localhost 25 Darn! ... I knew that it would be something like this. On Saturday libc6 was updated and it tried to restart inetd and probably failed (or something similar). Exim didn't start on port 25. Stoping and then again starting inetd (not /etc/init.d/inetd restart) did the trick. Thank you! Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public GnuPG-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
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.
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
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]
Re: Very strange fetchmail problem
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:15:48 +0200 (EET), Martin Fluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [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]:~ hmm..sorry.. i'm not really sure. how many other pop3 servers have you tried?
