Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-17 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 06:59:26 +0530, Sridhar M.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometime back I too had a similar problem. Fetchmail would exit after > downloading about 30 or 40 messages. Worse, when I reconnected, it would > start downloading the whole thing again. I know it is a problem with my >

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-15 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:36:21PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each > > message. > > > > - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? > > > > - if as a daemon, is smtp_

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread Richard Otte
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > It looks like fetchmail is opening a separate SMTP session for each > message. > > - are you running exim from inetd or as a daemon? > > - if as a daemon, is smtp_accept_max set to anything? > > - if from inetd, are you spawning loads of

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 07:45:29AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I had a similar problem > > > > It turns out that my ISP had some spam messages with a single "." on a line by > > itself. Instead of escaping these, it was transmitting

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread Ric Otte
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:06:08AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I had a similar problem > > It turns out that my ISP had some spam messages with a single "." on a line by > itself. Instead of escaping these, it was transmitting then to me - which > was causing fetchmail to think it had got to

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 13 August 2004 23:49, Ric Otte wrote: > If I allow a large number of emails to build up at my email provider, I > have problems downloading them. When I run fetchmail, I can download > 100-200 of them, but then I get a message such as the following: > > reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-14 Thread John Summerfield
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:35:21PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > I think running fetchmail by cron would work, but the problem arises > when I am out of town for a couple of days and my home machine is not > running. I could, of course, leave it running while I'm gone, b

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 05:35:21PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > I think running fetchmail by cron would work, but the problem arises > when I am out of town for a couple of days and my home machine is not > running. I could, of course, leave it running while I'm gone, but I > prefer

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin Mark
> I think running fetchmail by cron would work, but the problem arises > when I am out of town for a couple of days and my home machine is not > running. I could, of course, leave it running while I'm gone, but I > prefer to shut it down. Next time I return from a trip I may try > downloading on

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Ric Otte
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:14:41PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > Hi rick, > I have fetchmail run at intervals (like every 10 minutes) (CRON can do > this) and ask it to > download a few email at a time (like with --fetchlimit=20). So, I always > get a few emails every once in a while. This approach m

Re: can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:49:16PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > If anyone knows why this is happening, or has any suggestions, I would > appreciate it very much. > Thanks, > Ric Hi rick, I have fetchmail run at intervals (like every 10 minutes) (CRON can do this) and ask it to download a few email at

can't retrieve large numbers of email

2004-08-13 Thread Ric Otte
If I allow a large number of emails to build up at my email provider, I have problems downloading them. When I run fetchmail, I can download 100-200 of them, but then I get a message such as the following: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:195 of 399 (10332 octets) flushed reading message [EMAIL