[fetchmail-users] Re: Socket error in fetchmail

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 20/09/05, deven barhate <red...@gm...> wrote:
> Dear Friends, 
>   
> I'm using fetchmail-6.2.0-3 and sendmail-8.12 on redhat linux 9. 

Upgrade to 6.2.5.2 (or 6.3).  The version you're running has known
security issues.
   
> I can fetch some mails thoroly without any problem but at some point  i'm
> geting fillowing message- 
>   
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.server.com 
> fetchmail: 6.2.5 querying mail.server.com ( protocol POP3) at <date and
> time>: poll completed 
> fetchmail Query status=2 (SOCKET) 

In short, as you'll know from reading the archive, SOCKET errors mean
that the network connection between fetchmail and either the SMTP or
POP/IMAP server failed.  Often you can get details from "fetchmail -v
-v" or from looking in your mail log that'll tell you what failed.

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