[fetchmail]Socket Error

[Matthias Andree]

"Lucky Me" <neiman007@hotpop.com> writes:

> Using Fetchmail 6.2.5

Are you still using fetchmail or have you switched to getmail instead,
given your post on that list an hour later?

> postfix will also give a message after the fetchmail socket error of:
>
> "postfix/smtpd[3695]: lost connection after DATA from
> localhost[127.0.0.1]"

This information isn't complete...

> I noticed it hung on the same spam message two different times, so maybe it
> is a problem with the type or formating of the email.

...but such things can happen, when, for instance, the POP3 server fails
to send a proper message end marker. There may be other problems, but to
debug this, we need a copy of the mail or session captured with
"tcpdump -w debug.dump host pop3.example.org".

You MUST change your password before uploading the file to some FTP or
web server. Please post only the URL, not the whole file.

> My Linux box is behind a firewall, are there any ports I should open or
> forward to the Linux box to diagnose the problem?

As long as it doesn't firewall 127.0.0.1, it should be fine.


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Matthias Andree