Fetchmail socket problem

[jdow]

From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>

> 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 at mylocal.lan 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?

OK, after reading this it is quite obvious you don't understand how
imap works. Fetchmail is not the right tool for this job, or at least
it will be a royal pita to use.

There is a solution. Now, I'm doing this from my viewpoint in Outlook
Express on an XP machine connected to the Linux machine. With OE the
task is really simple. With other tools YMMV.

What I do is create two accounts in OE. One for each machine. I create
all the IMAP folders on the second machine that already exist on the
first machine. Then I highlight all the contents of each folder in order
and copy them to the corresponding folder on the second machine. With
enough boring folder pair copies it's done and Bob's your uncle.

(I really SHOULD read back to see the original question sometimes.)

{^_^}   Joanne