Re: [fetchmail-users] Has anyone ever seen "Fetchmail saw more than N timouts while attempting to get mail from ..."

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

On 7/15/06, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> Has anyone ever seen warning messages of his fetchmail running in daemon
> mode that were like:
>
>   Fetchmail saw more than 20 timouts while attempting to get mail from
>   foo@bar.  This could mean that your mailserver is stuck, or that your
>   SMTP listener is wedged, or that your mailbox file on the server has
>   been corrupted by a server error.  You can run `fetchmail -v -v' to
>   diagnose the problem. Fetchmail won't poll this mailbox again until
>   you restart it.

I'm not aware of having ever seen such a message, despite periods of
24 hours and more when my ISP's mail server has been offline (and
easily polled a couple of hundred times).

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