I usually use either a FreeBSD box or another box running Gentoo Linux, as my workstation. Lately, (I don't remember this happening before upgrading to 4.7-STABLE) I've had a problem with fetchmail.
As I'm the only user on the box, rather than run sendmail or others, I use fetchmail which goes to procmail and then read mail with mutt. I use nbsmtp to send mail. If I'm in FreeBSD, and run fetchmail as a daemon, polling at 5 or 10 minute intervals, eventually it stops working. Running it in verbose mode gives me back an error from nyc.rr.com's pop server that the mailbox is in use. Running both fetchmail and procmail in verbose mode indicate that the problem occurs only on the server, before anything reaches my machine. If I wait an hour or so, it usually again works without problem for several hours. However, I haven't had the problem on the Linux box, even if I start polling every two minutes. Googling has come up with nothing--posts about similar error messages had to do with MS platforms--which makes me think that I'm missing something incredibly obvious. The only other differences between the Gentoo box and FreeBSD box that I can see are that Gentoo uses .maildir format and FreeBSD uses Mail by default. However, as mentioned above, all problems seem to occur on the server. While it might be coincidence that it only happens while I'm using the FreeBSD box, it seems peculiar--as fetchmail is an independent program, I don't see what could be causing it to act one way with FreeBSD and not with Linux and would be grateful for any suggestions of manpages, et al. (The fetchmail and fetchmailrc manpages haven't helped--if the answer is there, I'm missing it.) Again, as I haven't found anything on Google, I suspect I am missing something obvious. TIA -- Scott PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: Do you know what he's going to do to me when he finds out I let his car get stolen? I mean, what are the chances that a vampire has full insurance with a low deductible?
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