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

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

On 5/16/07, Kyle Contreras-Barbour <kyl...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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).

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> 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 you're having comms problems then, given that downloading a 14 MB
file over dialup will take some time, it may be related.

One option you may want to look at is making use of the 30 trial
period you can use VMWare for.  That would allow you to stand up a
virtual Linux box to test with, which would at least allow
identification as to whether or not it's a Cygwin problem.

> 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)?

Sadly there's nothing you can do about problems beyond the end of your
network cable :)  I'd, roughly, expect (if my maths is working) a 14
MB file to take about 40 minutes over a standard dialup (nominal 48
Kb/s, nothing else going on).  If you're saying your connection is
unstable then you've got a good window for problems to occur.

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