Hi,
I run fetchmail as a daemon to poll an IMAP server which implements the
IDLE command. For some reason, I'm getting a lot of "socket error" which
very rarely happened before (when I was using POP3).
The error occurs when an email is received and the server sends
fetchmail a notification:
Jun 10 14:57:03 hostname fetchmail[4951]: re-poll failed
Jun 10 14:57:03 hostname fetchmail[4951]: socket error while fetching
from imap.isp.com
Jun 10 14:57:03 hostname fetchmail[4951]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
Jun 10 14:57:03 hostname fetchmail[4951]: sleeping at Sun Jun 10
14:57:03 2007
Jun 10 14:58:03 hostname fetchmail[4951]: awakened at Sun Jun 10
14:58:03 2007
Jun 10 15:11:31 hostname fetchmail[4951]: 1 message for m38549482-5 at
imap.1and1.com.
Jun 10 15:11:32 hostname fetchmail[4951]: reading message
use...@im...:1 of 1 (1602 header octets)
Jun 10 15:11:32 hostname fetchmail[4951]: (1689 body octets)
Jun 10 15:11:32 hostname fetchmail[4951]: flushed
It seems, fetchmail poll the server every 28 minutes if no email
notification was received (and the same pbm happens).
I've checked the FAQ and I don't think the isp uses virtual server names
and round-robin, but I can't be sure about this.
As you can see from these logs, the polling interval is 60 seconds which
means I was getting my emails 1 minute late. To workaround this problem,
I've set the polling interval to 1 second.
Any ideas why this is happening?
Thanks,
Jean-Luc
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