[fetchmail]Fetchmail socket error...

[Rob MacGregor]

On 24/06/05, Vineet Arora <vinit.arora@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>  We have one customized Linux box, working as a Mail and Proxy Server,
> on which mails of our domain ABC.com is configured. Problem is that
> fetchmail is not able to delete last mail which remains in POP Mailbox
> after flushing all the mails. If I set the expunge option as "1" in
> fetchmail file and suppose there are 5 mails in POP mailbox. 4 out of
> five mails get downloaded and also get deleted from POP mailbox. But
> it gives error (Socket error=3D=3DQuery status 2) after downloading the
> fifth mail from the server.

Well, 2 things you can try.  First off, don't bother with setting
expunge - it may be that your problem is caused by your using this.=20
Secondly, try setting the fetchlimit to, say 4.
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> Then I started downloading mails using fetchmail. Same error (Socket
> error=3D=3DQuery status 2) was coming in fetchmail. After this error
> (Glibc detected. some error code) started coming in OE also.

Output of "fetchmail -v -v" and the actual error code would be useful!
 We're not mind readers and my crystal ball broke...
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>  One more thing I observe is that if I set "fetchall" option in
> fetchmail.rc account configuration. Only then error comes after
> downloading all 4 mails. If I do not put "fetchall" then error comes
> in query only.

Output of "fetchmail -v -v" showing this?

>  Do you think the only option is to upgrade the fetchmail. We have
> tried that. It asked for lot of dependencies. I was not able to even
> install the first one (libcSo.06 (glibc 2.3.3). If you have time can
> you advice from which site we can download the exact RPM or TAR of
> fetchmail and dependencies.

Try installing from source instead.

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