I haven't cc'd this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I'm not positive it's actually a bug. It doesn't seem right, though, so I'm posting here for comments: Since I upgraded to SME v5 last night (including update 1), I hadn't been able to use fetchmail to grab mail from my earthlink account. I tried upgrading fetchmail to 5.9.0 using an RPM found on rpmfind.net with no effect. Here's the relevant part of the .fetchmailrc file: # Use this for production poll mail.earthlink.net protocol POP3: user danb35 is [EMAIL PROTECTED] password **********; And here's what happens when I try to run it: [root@e-smith /root]# fetchmail -v -v fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mail.earthlink.net (protocol POP3) at Fri 21 Sep 2001 01:39:43 PM EDT fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(mail.earthlink.net.pop3) fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file. According to the fetchmail manpage, exit code 2 means "An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don’t know what a socket is, don’t worry about it -- just treat this as an ’unrecoverable error’. This error can also be because a protocol fetchmail wants to use is not listed in /etc/services." ...and I just found the problem. To fix it, you need to add a line to /etc/services reading as follows: pop3 110/tcp It has lines for pop and pop-3, but apparently fetchmail needs one for "pop3" to work correctly. If I understand this correctly, this error will appear any time you try to use fetchmail to pull mail from a POP3 server. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring." --The Judgment of St. Collum Cille -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
