On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > Although the .fetchmailrc that I'm using for testing is a section from a > working one on the old server, I'm getting what appears to be socket > errors. I've googled and found lots of similar questions, but no > answers. This is what happens: > > fetchmail --verbose --keep > fetchmail: 6.2.5.5 querying mailbox.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Sun 22 Jan > 2006 05:48:12 PM GMT: poll started > fetchmail: 6.2.5.5 querying mailbox.co.uk (protocol POP3) at Sun 22 Jan > 2006 05:48:12 PM GMT: poll completed > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET) > fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 > > This is the .fetchmail rc for that account: > > set logfile "~/fetchmail.log" > > poll mailbox.co.uk > proto pop3 port 124 > via localhost > user "pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount" > pass "mypass" > is anne@xxxxxxxxxxx fetchall > > Nothing is being written to ~/fetchmail.log. > > I know there is one test email in that mailbox - I've checked it by > webmail. > > Can anyone help, please? ---- can you login to that via telnet? telnet localhost 124 . login pop3.mailbox.co.uk:myaccount mypass that's a non-standard port and a non standard way of passing an account login that you are using - would be good to know if you can login. Craig
