fetchmail Query status=2 (SOCKET)

[Richard Aron]

Hi!

I have been using fetchmail for like 1½ years or so, and I have nver had a
single problem with it. However, today when I booted up and wanted to
fetch my mails, I got the following;
$ fetchmail -v
fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mail.secret.org (protocol POP3) at Fri 24 Jan 2003 17:18:27 CET
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 2
$

No mails were fetched. I looked through the web based mail interface, and
noticed that I actually had e-mails. What has happened during night? There
was no unexpected shutdown or anything that could have damaged any files
or something. I checked my mail with fetchmail just 5 hours later.

I have googled around, without finding anything useful. I've just seen
that I'm not alone about this problem.

Thank you in advance!

--
Richard

[Farley Benn]

Fetchmail can be quirky. But it usually works okay and your quirk will probably
just vanish like it came.

If anyone knows of a substitute for fetchmail (not getmail, which uses Perl
and I don't like Perl) that is smaller than it is, I'd sure like to know
about it. The only thing I need it to do is fetch my mail and dump it raw into
a directory of my choice. I have scripts that do the rest.

Farley

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[Bonehead]

Is it possible your network/internet connection was dropped,
so that fetchmail could not find a way to the desired target?

[Richard Aron]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:54:36 +0000, Bonehead wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 16:23:26 GMT, Richard Aron <n...@spam.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have been using fetchmail for like 1½ years or so, and I have nver
>> had a single problem with it. However, today when I booted up and wanted
>> to fetch my mails, I got the following;
>> $ fetchmail -v
>> fetchmail: 5.9.0 querying mail.secret.org (protocol POP3) at Fri 24 Jan
>> 2003 17:18:27 CET fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>> fetchmail: normal termination, status 2 $
>>

> Is it possible your network/internet connection was dropped, so that
> fetchmail could not find a way to the desired target?

I considered this as well, and tested. But it was up. Anyhow, I rebooted
(due to a kernel upgrade, not to fix the fetchmail prob) and it worked.
However, if you know the reason, I'd like to know anyways ;-)

Thank you!

[tomai...@gmail.com]

Hi richard,
I need to install and configuration of fetchmail on cygwin on windows 10 operating system so please could you help me to out of this

[Carlos E.R.]

Did you notice that the post you are replying to was made on 2003, and
now it is 2016?

However, your question was asked recently on the fetchmail-users mail list:

https://sourceforge.net/p/fetchmail/mailman/message/34887435/

That answer is probably authoritative.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

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