On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:17:30 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This is a follow up on trying to diagnose why I am getting duplicate mail > > messages. I have turned on verbose in fetchmail call to see if I could see > > something amiss in fetchmail with my mail server. Yesterday when I envoked > > fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I did not experience any duplicate mail > > messages. I perused the log file and everyting looked good. Today when I > > envoked fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I am experiencing duplicate mail > > messages again. I looked at the log file and everything seemed to be normal, > > however after receiving 70 messages it slept for a while. Then it started to > > receive messages again starting with message 1, then 2, etc. Here is an > > excerpt from the log: > > Unfortunately you don't paste the part where you see the 'restart' of > the fetch process. Here is a snippet of the restart process: fetchmail: POP3> LAST fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 fetchmail: 72 messages for r.godzilla at mail.comcast.net (715764 octets). fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 1052 fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999 fetchmail: POP3< +OK fetchmail: reading message r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:1 of 72 (1052 octets) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.12.11; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:18:20 -0800 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost fetchmail: SMTP< 250-localhost.localdomain Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you I did notice socket errors before each refetch sequence: fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net What could be causing the socket errors? -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097