Re: [fetchmail-users] comcast.net pop3 broken after 5.9.12 upgraded

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Denis Hainsworth <de...@al...> writes:

> fetchmail has been awesome and worked flawlessly for years for me, thats
> why this is so odd.  my system is redhat fedora core 3ish (i upgrade
> packages as I need to) anyway I had an rpm of fetchmail 5.9.12 installed
> which was working fine.  I did something dumb with postfix and stopped
> receiving mail, while troubleshooting it I upgraded fetchmail to 
> fetchmail-6.2.5-7.fc4.1.i386.rpm.  Once I found my problem with postfix
> I verified that fetchmail could connect to my univeristy IMAP account
> and it started downloading my mail.  Great.  Several days later I
> realized I was no longer receiving mail from my comcast.new pop3 acocunt
> which is AFTER my IMAP account in my fetchmailrc file.

Can you try fetchmail-6.3.0 or 6.3.1-pre1 and see if the problem
persists? There have been dozens of bugfixes since 6.2.5.

> [624] christmas /home/denis% fetchmail -v -v
> fetchmail: 5.9.13 querying mail.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Thu, 15
> Dec 2005 16:56:18 -0500 (EST): poll started
> fetchmail: fetchmail: getaddrinfo(mail.comcast.net.pop3)
> fetchmail: 5.9.13 querying mail.comcast.net (protocol POP3) at Thu, 15
> Dec 2005 16:56:18 -0500 (EST): poll completed
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
> fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.

getaddrinfo is, AFAIR, only used if inet6 is enabled. Does your system
have complete IPv6 implementation, recent (i. e. no older than what was
shipped with Fedora Core 3) glibc, resolver and similar code? Is your
glibc fit for a 2.6 kernel? Pre-2.6 user space may cause trouble on 2.6
kernels, and unfortunately, Linux 2.6.X is not what other operating
systems or software programmers would call "stable".

While Linux 2.6.6 is generally speaking new enough for IPv6, if you
upgrade packages as opportunity arises, this in itself may introduce
inconsistencies that cause all kinds of problems.

This is really hard to debug, if the 6.3.0 (or 6.3.1-pre1) still fail,
perhaps strace can shed some light.

See http://home.pages.de/~mandree/fetchmail/ or
    http://fetchmail.berlios.de/
for downloads of 6.3.1-pre1 and 6.3.0, respectively.

-- 
Matthias Andree