Mark Phillips wrote: > I am trying to set up fetchmail to extract my email from university to my > home machine. It seems to start out okay, but falls down along the > way. Here's what I get: > > # fetchmail > Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > fetchmail: 4 messages (3 seen) for mark at adam.ist.flinders.edu.au. > fetchmail: skipping message 1 not flushed > fetchmail: skipping message 2 not flushed > fetchmail: skipping message 3 not flushed > fetchmail: reading message 4 of 4 (2413 bytes) (log message incomplete) > fetchmail: timeout after 60 seconds. > fetchmail: client/server synchronization error while fetching from > adam.ist.flinders.edu.au > > Any ideas of what is wrong? Or how I could find out? > > My .fetchmailrc is as follows: > > set logfile = "/var/log/fetchmail" > poll adam.ist.flinders.edu.au timeout 60 protocol pop3 user mark > > (And by the way, /var/log/fetchmail is empty.)
It looks like your connection is timing out before you get the full message, due to a slow server or net connection. Also, it is not getting the first three messages because it thinks that they are already 'seen' from a previous connection attempt. Try the 'fetchall' option to fix this. Also, I don't think the logfile entry needs the '=' The manpage uses uppercase for protocol entries. You can also insert dummy reserved words (with, here, etc) for readability. New .fetchmailrc set logfile /var/log/fetchmail poll adam.ist.flinders.edu.au with protocol POP3 timeout 250 user mark there is mark here options fetchall -Mitch
