Steen Jansdal wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using FetchMail to retrieve mails from
> some external POP3 servers. Saturday the FetchMail
> task stopped in the middle of a mail and has never
> returned. The last message in the log is something
> like:
>
> 20/09/03 00:43:50 INFO  fetchmail.fetched_from_external:
> Fetching mail
> from server
>   'mail.buanco.dk' for user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in folder 'INBOX'
>
> Shouldn't FetchMail timeout if the POP3 server stopped
> responding?

FetchMail will only timeout if you configure the appropriate JavaMail
properties. By default the timeout values are infinite! Try setting
'mail.pop3.connectiontimeout' and 'mail.pop3.timeout' properties to
something reasonable, like 3 minutes. See
http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/javadocs/com/sun/mail/pop3/package-sum
mary.html for how to do this.

If you still have problems, please let me know.

For information on how setting JavaMail properties will be getting easier,
read
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
.org&msgNo=9891.

-- Steve



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