[fetchmail]slow/no performance with uunet/mci dial-up

[Rob MacGregor]

On 02/11/05, lists.fetchmail.0511@shmem.com
<lists.fetchmail.0511@shmem.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running fetchmail 6.2.5+SSL+NLS.  It works great when connected to
> the Internet via broadband.  It also worked fine last year with
> dial-up from a few ISPs including MCI/uunet.  But for the last several
> months when connected via MCI/uunet only one or two messages are read
> (*very* slowly) and then fetchmail quits.  This happens with even very
> short messages as shown below.  The PPP connection is usually 24-33k,
> and while not fast, loads web pages at the speed expected for dial-up.
> Any advice on how to troubleshoot this?

There's very little to go on there, but the SOCKET error is one that
comes up fairly regularly - a trawl of the list archives will give you
details on the problems others have seen.

Nearly always the error indicates a problem between you and the remote
host.  The only things you can do is:

1) Get fetchmail to log via syslog so you can actually see the delays invol=
ved
2) Check your connectivity to the mail server (ping will give you a
*very* rough idea)
3) Try another dialup ISP to confirm that it is MCI that is the problem.

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