Re: [fetchmail-users] Fetchmail Socket error on a satellite connection

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

On 4/12/07, Ben Jsh <be...@po...> wrote:
> Dear All,
> I am having trouble downloading mail via POP3 with the latest 6.3.8 and all versions.
>
> I tried popping the same account from a adsl line and it worked but when I do it over the satellite connection it fails.

Which says that you have a comms problem and that it isn't software
related (on the assumption that you're talking about the same system
running fetchmail).  At a rough guess it is probably due to the highly
asymmetric nature of the link.  There isn't going to be anything you
can do to fetchmail to fix this.

You *may* be able to tune the network settings on your OS (whatever it
is) to compensate.

<---SNIP--->
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
> fetchmail: Deleting fetchids file.

Socket errors are almost always down to your network connection, though
sometimes due to the remote system (see the FAQ).  I've never yet seen
them being caused by fetchmail.

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