Re: [ILUG-BOM] fetchmail help

Sometime on Aug 11, Parag Mehta assembled some asciibets to say:

fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)

what is the query socket stuff in fetchmail ? it only does this and does not fetchmails ! any help / hints / tips

from man fetchmail

EXIT CODES

2 An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'.

Basically, fetchmail couldn't open a socket on port 110 with pop.mail.yahoo.com

Try telnet pop.mail.yahoo.com 110 to see if you can manually create the socket. It's possible that yahoo has rejected connections on port 110. Do they still allow pop3?

Philip