Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail socket error.

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

"Rob MacGregor" <rob...@gm...> writes:

>>  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.

Well, the FreeBSD host is running Dovecot.

> You may get something more useful from a packet dump (ethereal/tcpdump etc).
>
> I suspect that you've got a networking/firewall config error.

The strace reveals that the client sees EOF in the middle of a base64
encoded part of a message, there's a recv(3, ... MSG_PEEK) that returned
0. Looks like the server closed its end of the connection. If it's an
older Dovecot version or the index files got corrupted somehow, that
would explain the issue as well. Updating Dovecot to 0.99.14 if it's
0.99.X and to 1.0-beta3 if it's 1.0-whatever and then removing the index
files so that Dovecot rebuilds them might fix the problem.

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Matthias Andree