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From: Hartmut Figge <h.figge@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 07:21:06
Message-Id: 54D46B3E.2070706@hfigge.myfqdn.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes by Hartmut Figge
1 Hartmut Figge:
2 >Poison BL.:
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4 >>Port 995 there indicates SSL POP mail.
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6 >Thanks. That has to be fetchmail. Verified by stopping it.
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8 The solution may be interesting to others. After unsuccessfully playing with the options of fetchmail, I discovered that the reason was a huge mail sitting on my ISP.
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10 fetchmail[2695]: reading message h.figge@×××.de@pop.gmx.net:1 of 1 (10652260 octets) (log message incomplete)
11 fetchmail[2695]: SMTP error: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit
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13 That caused fetchmail to go frantic. *g* After deleting the mail via the web all was well again.
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15 Hartmut

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Huge downloads approx. every 2 minutes "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>