RHs: I've struggled with this through several distros and now RH6.1. The problem is this: In running fetchmail (or any other program to fetch mail from an ISP) at some point it often stops receiving information from the ISP and times out. When this happens, I cannot run it again and expect to get mail; I have to restart the PPP connection and then it will work again. This all seems to depend to some degree on the amount of mail I receive. But it's erratic-- it doesn't always happen, but the more mail I get at a time, the more likely it is to happen. I don't recall having this problem with 2.0.X kernels. It seems to have started when I went to 2.2 series kernels. I also can't guarantee this only applies to email. It may happen as well when I just surf, but I surf a lot less than I get email. Here's what I've checked: 1) Not a problem with the ISP. That's Concentric, and they are running Unix mail servers. My wife (on Windows 95) _never_ has this problem. 2) It's not fetchmail. I've tried several versions, as well as other programs that do the same thing. 3) It's not the modem. Started out with a Hayes 24.4, then a USR 33.6, and now a Zoom 56K. Modems are external. 4) It's not the phone line. My wife and I share the phone line and sit three feet away from each other. We use the same dial-up account on the ISP (naturally, we have to take turns). One oddity is that with full diagnostics turned on, fetchmail invariably reports that each email I receive is not the expected length. This problem almost seems like a buffer getting full and then sticking until the ppp connection is reset. If you've run into this before, let me know. If you need more info, let me know what. Paul M. Foster -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
