Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail socket error.

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

On 3/29/06, Ernst Verhaar <e.v...@vi...> wrote:
>  Hi All,
>
>  Tnx for the quick repsonse,
>  Unfortunatly the suggestions did not work.

What are your firewall rules?

>  The Host Machine is running FreeBSD 5.4 with Packet filter.

Did you install from the ports?  I've got 5.4 with IPF and never had a
problem with fetchmail.

>  I attached an strace log of an unsuccesfull fetchmail attempt. Unfortunatly
> this log is like the chinese language to me. :-(
>  fetchmail -vvv does not provides more information except socket error.

You may get something more useful from a packet dump (ethereal/tcpdump etc).

I suspect that you've got a networking/firewall config error.

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