[fetchmail]socket error

[Rob MacGregor]

On 08/07/05, Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Below is a strace from a recent transaction that was giving me a Query
> status =3D 2.  Additonally, I wanted to ask, what happens if the mail tha=
t
> I am receiving doesn't have a lone period?  It's true to say that a
> message should end with a period on a line all by itself, right?

A trawl of the list archive would give you the answer to both.  Socket
errors usually indicate a connection problem.  If you'd provided the
output of "fetchmail -v -v" I might be able to tell you more.
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> If it is true, what would happen if the end of the message came before
> the period ever appeared?

Fetchmail would log an error.

> This also probably means that my provider isn't doing a good job of
> filtering out non compliant mail.

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Rob MacGregor
      Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he=20
        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche