OT: fetchmail problem

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Jacob -

I have a similar problem with my fetchmail program. It is rare, but seems
to be specific to a particular message when it happens. My solution has
been - forgive me - to boot to DOS and retrieve the mail from my ISP with
nettamer, which has never failed to read the stuff. I have no idea what
the problem is, but would bne interested to know more about your
particular "plan b" using pine.

Chuck


On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jacob
Schmude wrote:

> Hi all
>      This is slightly off topic, but maybe someone on here can answer it.
> This one's got me stumped.
>      Fetchmail will not deliver any mail from my ISP to my local system. I
> type fetchmail, and I'm connected to the server. I get the message reading
> message 1 of 10 (or how many I've got) and then the number of octets in
> the header. Then, though, fetchmail appears frozen. It reads no more, it
> just sits there, and ctrl-c is the only thing that terminates it. I'm
> thinking it's got something to do with sendmail, which is the SMTP agent
> that is provided with slackware. I'm still able to read mail by having
> pine read it from my ISP's IMAP server, but it's a bit slow that way.
> Any ideas? I've gone through the sendmail reconfiguration and still no
> good.
> 
> 
> 
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