[fetchmail]Fetchmail issue ?

[Rob MacGregor]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:26:37 +0200, Patrick <nawtyness@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> my fetchmailrc looks as follows :
> 50 000 lines of :
> 
> poll <ip> protocol pop3 username "username" password "password"
> smtpname "username" smtphost 127.0.0.1 keep
> 
> the username is in the following format :
>  un@domain.com
> 
> > Does the error always happen about the same point?
> 
> Not at the exact same point but around 1200ish.
> 
> > And, do you really mean ~1,300 remote POP accounts?  If so, what do
> > you mean by 50,000?
> 
> there's 36000 in the one file, every ~1300 odd ( >1100 but <1400ish )
> it dies, and refuses to connect to the smtp server anymore.

I don't suspect that fetchmail was ever designed to handle that many
mail servers.  Two things to try.

First, using 127.0.0.1 is the default for SMTP submission.  Try
dropping "smtphost 127.0.0.1" from each line.

Secondly, if you're polling multiple accounts on a single server, try
specifying them together:

defaults
    proto pop3
poll <ip>
    username "a" password "a" smtpname "a" keep
    username "b" password "b" smtpname "b" keep
poll <ip2>
    username "c" password "c" smtpname "c" keep

And so on.

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