Re: [fetchmail-users] SMTP connect error with fetchmail under Cygwin

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

On 5/12/07, Kyle Contreras-Barbour <kyl...@gm...> wrote:
> 6.3.8 and 3.22, respectively, according to setup.exe).
>
> I did indeed need to get exim running, it seems (thanks!) - I ran
> exim-config to get the daemon going and when I ran fetchmail, instead of
> giving "connection to localhost failed" it happily connected. However, it's
> still having certificate verification errors (I don't know if that's a big
> issue or not) and terminating with a socket error. This is what it's showing
> at the end:

Not a big deal.

> It's been getting stuck at the same message, which appears to be fairly
> large (14003782 octets), so I'm starting to wonder if there isn't some issue
> there. Before it hits that message, it's giving this:
>
> 649 messages (292 seen) for so...@gm... at pop.gmail.com (21915850
> octets).
> skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:1 not flushed
> skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:2 not flushed
> ...
> skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:291 not flushed
> skipping message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:292 not flushed
> fetchmail: POP3> LIST 293
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 293 14003782
> fetchmail: POP3> RETR 293
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK message follows
> reading message so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com:293 of 649 (14003782 octets)
>
> Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.
> fetchmail: SMTP< 220 <hostname> ESMTP Exim 4.66 Sat, 12 May 2007 14:04:08
> -0700
> fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO <hostname>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-<hostname> Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 52428800
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP
> fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<so...@gm...> SIZE=14003782
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 OK
> fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<username@hostname>
> fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Accepted
> fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
> fetchmail: SMTP< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
> #<massive string of asterisks, interrupted by periods>
<--- following section moved into what appears to be the right place --->
> fetchmail: socket error while fetching from so...@gm...@pop.gmail.com
> fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at <date>: poll
> completed
> fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2

It could be a problem related to your exim config (14 MB is pretty
large for an email).  The contents of the exim log would be useful to
further diagnose, though from the snippet above it doesn't appear to
be a fetchmail problem.

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