Mario Da costa rearranged electrons thusly:
> I have been trying to configure fetchmail to download mail from my POP
> account. I am able to log on and see how many messages there are. Then
> when fetchmail actually tries to download the mail it seems to freeze
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2773 octets
> reading message 1 of 23 (2773 octets)
> fetchmail: timeout after 134661752 seconds waiting for listener to
always with the same mail? that one mail could be corrupt / it might be a spam
with an unresolvable domain in the from field
Try no dns (poll dakiya.controlnet.co.in with proto pop3 no dns)
Or see if there's a hosts.allow / hosts.deny problem or something similar
--suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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