On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:24:30PM -0700, Harry Reinert wrote:
Since migrating to 7.1, I have an odd problem with my dial-on-demand setup using wvdial. When running fetchmail, the first server that gets contacted reports an error that a connection could not be made. The rest of the servers work fine and if I run fetchmail again, before the modem hangs up, the first server works fine.
If I start wvdial manually, I don't get this same error message. And, if I start kppp, I don't have this problem.
I looked at var/log/messages, but don't see anything that immediately jumps out at me as a problem. This is somewhat annoying. Any ideas on what I should be looking for?
It's just that fetchmail is timing out on the first mailserver. The modem takes a certain amount of time to dialup. If there are problems, or you just take longer than usual to connect, then fetchmail may time out on the first server before the connection is fully up. What I sometimes do (to speed up the fetchmail retrieval) is run fetchmail, wait until I think the connection is up, then abort and re-run fetchmail. Normally is gets stuck on the DNS lookups for me (because I run a caching DNS server, it's waiting for a reply from the local DNS, so as far as it's concerned the connection is up). It's nothing to worry about, if slightly annoying. Either do something like I do, or ping google or somewhere a short while before running fetchmail - that'll do the trick too. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\