Howdy all, I've been experiencing some strange e-mail weirdness and I'm wondering if anyone else might have some insight into what's going on. I've had an e-mail address on mindspring for a very long time and I'm about to get rid of it, mainly because of the volume of SPAM. Well I finally got off my butt and installed Spam Assassin + Vipul's Razor on my Mandrake 9.2 server at home.
I've been using fetchmail for years now to pull down my e-mail from the mindspring account with out any problems. On my server I have Postfix configured and fetchmail was using Postfix as the MDA. Postfix would of course call Procmail via a .forward file, thus pre-sorting my mail before I read it with my IMAP capable e-mail program of the day. While setting up Spam Assassin I found out I could have fetchmail directly invoke procmail for the MDA and bypass Postfix since it just invoked procmail anyway. I figured I would just cut out the middle man so to speak. After getting Vipul's Razor installed to work with SpamAssassin (gotta love urpmi, yum, and the like) everything seemed OK. I was going to use my mindspring account to "train" SA. What seems to be happening now is that when fetchmail connects to mindspring it downloads the first message, passes it off to procmail + SA + VR, and then tries to delete the message on the server. During the DELE command is when the connection aborts. I'm thinking that it might be the fact that SA + VR can take a bit to complete (15 to 30 sec) and that mindspring is disconnecting me. I quickly added my account to Thunderbird at another location and was able to successfully pull down the mail. Has anyone else had this kind of trouble with mindspring? Here is a trace when using fetchmail: $ fetchmail -v -f .fetchmailrc-mindspring 2>&1 | perl -p -e '$now = localtime; print "$now: ";' Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: 6.2.4 querying mail.mindspring.com (protocol POP3) at Thu 08 Apr 2004 10:26:15 AM EDT: poll started Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK NGPopper vEL_5_7 at mindspring.com ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3> CAPA Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< user Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< pass Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< top Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< uidl Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< . Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3> USER XXXX Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK Thu Apr 8 10:26:15 2004: fetchmail: POP3> PASS * Thu Apr 8 10:26:16 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK XXXX has 2 messages (3778 octets). Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3> STAT Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2 3778 Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3> LAST Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: 2 messages for XXXX at mail.mindspring.com (3778 octets). Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3> LIST Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< 1 1888 Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< 2 1890 Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< . Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999 Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: fetchmail: POP3< +OK Thu Apr 8 10:26:19 2004: reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 2 (1888 octets) Thu Apr 8 10:26:50 2004: #************** flushed Thu Apr 8 10:26:50 2004: fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1 Thu Apr 8 10:26:50 2004: fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.mindspring.com Thu Apr 8 10:26:50 2004: fetchmail: 6.2.4 querying mail.mindspring.com (protocol POP3) at Thu 08 Apr 2004 10:26:50 AM EDT: poll completed Thu Apr 8 10:26:50 2004: fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) Thu Apr 8 10:26:50 2004: fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
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