On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 18:54:39 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > As a follow up to may last message I have observed socket errors in the > > fetchmail log. Every time this happens it is followed by it looks like a > > restart with downloading the messages. I did a grep for socket in the log. Here > > is what I found.: > > > > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from mail.comcast.net > > That can happen, maybe a temporary server side problem or an internet > connection problem on your side. I have this too in my fetchmail log. > > But if a mail is deleted on the server - "DELE NO." command, indicated > by "flushed" by fetchmail - then the mail is no longer on the server. If > you can get it a further time though, then the server has a serious > problem. > > > Richard E Miles > > Alexander So the socket errors are caused by errors on the server side? I guess that is possible. This afternoon the internet connection between the server and my computer went down. I could not ping www.comcast.net. It was down about a half hour. Now it's back. Could the socket error cause fetchmail to get confused as well as the server and thus cause duplicate transmission of messages? -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
