[fetchmail]mail downloading problem

[Laurence Moore]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Payal Rathod wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a dial-up account which I use to download (inject) mails from 
> remote server into my local MTA (qmail), using fetchmail on Linux 
> Mandrake. But I observed that mails which are greater than 150 or 200 
> Kbs are not downloaded at all. A timeout is given after a specified 
> period of 100s (or 200s).
> The internet connection is up and so is the remote server, but mails 
> are not eing downloaded. Can someone tell what might be the reason? I 
> use v 6.2.5

Try setting the MTU on your dialer to 576 and see if that makes any
difference.

Larry.