[Linux-disciples] Fetchmail weirdness

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Nope, but maybe it's timing out on the exchange/IMAP connection. Isn't there
a timeout variable for fetchmail?

There is also xchg2mail which I've used with great success to screen scrape
Exchange mail off of Exchange-for-the-web.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I've noticed something weird with fetchmail: it fairly
> regularly stops downloading from one of my mail servers.
> Here's my ~/.fetchmailrc:
> 
> 	poll laniels.org with proto imap:
> 		plugin "ssh %h /usr/sbin/imapd" auth ssh fetchall
> 	
> 	poll [work Exchange server] with proto imap:
> 		auth password user slaniel password 'password' fetchall ssl
> 	
> 	set daemon 300
> 
> I'll sign in via Thunderbird or whatnot, and I'll see that
> there are lots of messages waiting for me. So I go into
> .fetchmailrc, comment out everything except for the work
> Outlook account, and re-run fetchmail. Then it downloads the
> messages fine. And for at least a short time thereafter,
> even after I uncomment the other lines, it downloads
> properly. But then eventually it stops fetching properly.
> 
> Has anyone seen similar behavior?
> 
> 
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