Hi, Posting again, but with a little more info. First to bring everything up to date...
My ISP ran into problems last week and I couldn't download more than one or two messages without Fetchmail hanging. I logged in to my ISP web page and they had a notice about this so I changed none of my settings but waited them out. They now say that everything is working fine yet I can only download between 2-7 mesages before fetchmail hangs or gives me a socket error 2. Now I know the problem is not at this end since it all worked great here before the ISP trouble. But if they say everything is ok at their end, is there anything I can check or change at my end? And is there a way of getting a better idea of what the error is for this group? Until it works, I'm off the list since I have to restrict my mesages to the very minimum. Netscape and the web all works ok. Sending mail works ok as well. I. I type pon. 2. Once logged in, I type fetchmail Attempt 1: reading message 1 of 4.. flushed fetchmail: socket eror while fetching from pop.wanadoo.fr fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) Attempt 2: It hangs after I type fetchmail. Attempt 3: fetchmail: unknown login or authentication error on [EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop.wanadoo.fr fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) Attempt 4: It gets the now 7 messages without trouble. New Attempt using fetchmail logged and hands: --------Log-------- fetchmail: 5.3.3 querying pop.wanadoo.fr (protocol POP3) at Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:40:51 +0100 (CET) fetchmail: POP3< +OK POP3 server ready (NPlex 2.1.112) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: POP3> USER jgift fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: POP3> PASS * fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder fetchmail: POP3> STAT fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4 11033 4 messages for jgift at pop.wanadoo.fr (11033 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4 messages (11033 octets) fetchmail: POP3< 1 1721 fetchmail: POP3< 2 3340 fetchmail: POP3< 3 2324 fetchmail: POP3< 4 3648 fetchmail: POP3< . fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1721 octets reading message 1 of 4 (1721 octets) About to rewrite Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewritten version is Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> About to rewrite From: Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewritten version is From: Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> About to rewrite To: Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rewritten version is To: Jonathan Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> About to rewrite Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Rewritten version is Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org fetchmail: SMTP< 220 palatine ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:41:04 +0100 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-palatine Hello palatine [127.0.0.1] fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1721 fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP> DATA fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: terminated with signal 2 fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. -------log----- Where's the problem and why now and not before the ISP trouble began? Please email replies directly to me since I'm off teh list... for now. Thanks again. Jonathan