[fetchmail]Fetchmail SIGPIPE/socket error

Rob MacGregor Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor@gmail.com>
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:15:24 +0000


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:36:58 +1100, Bowen, Nigel
<nigel.bowen@adi-limited.com> wrote:
> 
> Using Fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon on a windows2000 server,  Yes I should know
> better then using windows, but I don't.
> 
> I get an error as follows:
> 
> C:\Program Files\OurInternet\Common\fetchmail\bin>type ..\rt-mailgate.conf
> | fetchmail.exe -N -d 300 -f -
> fetchmail: removing stale lockfile
> fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.2.5 daemon
> 2 messages (1 seen) for rbenalla at servername.ap.ord.adi-limited.com.
> skipping message rbenalla@servername.com:1 not flushed
> reading message rbenalla@servername.com:2 of 2 (462 header octets)  (275
> body octets) fetchmail: SIGPIPE thrown from an MDA or a stream socket error

The error would suggest a problem communicating with the delivery
agent, maybe.  However without contents of the .fetchmailrc file it's
hard to say.

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