On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:05:09 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:42:30 -0800, Richard E Miles > <r.godzilla@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Today while trying to get mails from my mail server I keep getting socket errors. > > This causes fetchmail to refetch mail from the server over and over again with > > the same mails. > > This typically is because of an old version of fetchmail that is > crashing while reading a malformed email message. try upgrading to a > newer version, as well as... > > > This is despite my adding expunge 10 to my .fetchmailrc file. > > try 1. that way if you do hit a 'bad message' and can't expunge it, > you won't be repeating work you've already done. as per the man page > http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-man.html Thanks for reply kevin. I think I have the latest version of fetchmail for FC3. I will change the expunge from 10 to 1 as per your suggestion. Today things have been better I only had 1 socket error. Hopefully changing expunge to 1 will stop all socket errors or at least multiple ones. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
