On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:24:56 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > virus checking. Why does using sendmail seem to hang up on the duplicate mails > > but reading directly from mail.comcast.net seems to get through the > > duplicate mail problems?. It seems strange to me. > > > Richard E Miles > > Because it takes much more time to preceed the anti-spam + anti-virus > checking. And the comcast server side seems to be not much reliable. > > Alexander Thanks for reply Alexander. I guess I will have to put up with the socket errors using fetchmail. However if the duplicate mails persist, I can use the direct connect to mail.comcast.net to get the mail. Such is life, sigh. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097