Meraj Rasool Khattak wrote: > I am trying to poll my from gmail server through > fetchmail. This does the job here (and should do the same as yours): defaults proto pop3 poll pop.gmail.com user xxxxxxx@gmail.com pass xxxxxxxxxxxx fetchall ssl > fetchmail : Query status=2 (SOCKET) > fetchmail : normal termination, status2 This output is near to useless. Run fetchmail with the -v switch.