Fetchmail problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 10:50, Gbenga Shobowale wrote:
> Hi Anne
>
> On 7/31/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > From time to time I get fetchmail problems, and don't understand what the
> > error messages are telling me:
> >
> > fetchmail -a
> > fetchmail: socket error while fetching from pop3.tiscali.co.uk
> > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
> > fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
> This error only occurs when you have lost Internet connection and the
> other is because you are now trying to run fetchmail when it is
> running in background.
>
> Check you Internet connection..nslookup cnn.com to see if it resolves
>
I'm fairly sure that I have seen it when a browser can still operate.  It 
would have to be a momentary loss, I think.  I will check again, next time I 
get the problem.

Anne
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