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

[Kyle Contreras-B. <kyl...@gm...>]

On 5/14/07, Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm... > wrote:
>
> That suggests a problem with the communication with the remote host
> (ppp.gmail.com). However, it wouldn't hurt to check some of the
> basics:
>
> 1) Do you have at least 14 MB of free space in /var (and possibly /tmp)?

2) Can you view this email via GMail?  Can another mail client (say,
> Thunderbird) view this email?
>


<snip>
>
> If you can get exim working it wouldn't hurt to remove the MDA line
> and get some log info.  I suspect it won't show anything useful
> though.
>
> If you want to avoid fetchmail trying to download this email you can
> use the "limit" directive to tell it to skip emails above a certain
> size.  See "Resource Limit Control Options" in the man page for
> details.


> <snip>
>


On 5/14/07, Jason Tishler < ja...@ti...> wrote:

> You can enable verbose procmail logging by adding "VERBOSE=yes" to the
> command line:
>
>     mda "/usr/bin/procmail VERBOSE=yes -d %T"
>


<snip>
>


However, can you try this from a non-Cygwin host (e.g., Linux)
> to rule out a Cygwin specific problem?
>


When running procmail with VERBOSE=yes, it outputs (snoutwood being my
login):

procmail: [588] Wed May 16 03:11:27 2007
procmail: Couldn't read "/home/snoutwood/-d"
procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/snoutwood.lock"
procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/snoutwood"
procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/snoutwood"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: [588] Wed May 16 03:11:28 2007
procmail: Unlocking "/var/spool/mail/snoutwood.lock"
 Subject: Camera manuals
  Folder: /var/spool/mail/snoutwood
1839916

When I removed the mda line and ran exim, /var/log/exim/exim_main.log looked
like this:

2007-05-16 03:28:39 exim 4.66 daemon started: pid=852, -q15m, listening for
SMTP on port 25 (IPv4)
2007-05-16 03:28:39 Start queue run: pid=1232
2007-05-16 03:28:39 End queue run: pid=1232
2007-05-16 03:40:03 SMTP connection from localhost (finnegan) [127.0.0.1]
lost while reading message data

I've got plenty of space (lots more than 14MB, anyway) in both /var and
/tmp. I can view it in Gmail, and what of it I've downloaded is easily
viewable in Thunderbird. It's got a few .pdf files attached to it (hence the
size).

I'll definitely use the size limit if I can't get it through somehow - seems
like that's the best workaround if need be. It'd be nice to be able to grab
the message with fetchmail, though.

Sadly, I don't have access to a Linux box at the moment. Maybe soon - I'm
currently having modem troubles, but hopefully they'll be fixed soon and I
can give it a shot.

If it is a problem with communication with ppp.gmail.com, is there much I
can do about it? Also, it occurred to me that I'm using a dial-up
connection: could that be affecting this at all (due to the length of
download times, etc., maybe some sort of timeout issue)?

Again, thanks for all the help!
Kyle