[gentoo-user] Fetchmail

[Steve [Gentoo]]

I've recently experienced a bizarre failure... and I wondered if anyone 
else has experienced something similar or has a suggestion to avoid a 
similar annoyance in future.

I run fetchmail to poll 3 servers every minute... and while this has 
worked fine for weeks, last night it froze at 2am and stopped polling.  
When I killed the fetchmail process and ran fetchmail again this 
afternoon, things jumped to life again and appear back to normal... but 
I wished I didn't have to make the manual intervention.  Fetchmail is 
version "6.2.5.2+RPA+NTLM+SDPS+SSL+INET6+NLS" from portage and has the 
following in ~/.fetchmailrc

--
set postmaster "postmaster@localhost"
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set logfile .fetchmail.log
set properties ""
set daemon 60
poll pop3.host1.net with proto POP3
        user 'user1' there with password 'pass1' is 'me' here options 
stripcr
poll pop3.host1.net with proto POP3
        user 'user2' there with password 'pass2' is 'me' here options 
stripcr
poll mail.host2.org with proto POP3
        user 'user3' there with password 'pass3' is 'me' here with 
options stripcr
--
The tail of the trace file read:
--
fetchmail: awakened at Tue Dec 13 01:59:58 2005
fetchmail: 1 message for user2 at pop3.host1.net (5449 octets).
fetchmail: reading message user2@××××××××××.net:1 of 1 (5449 octets) 
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: sleeping at Tue Dec 13 02:00:12 2005
fetchmail: awakened at Tue Dec 13 02:01:12 2005
fetchmail: 2 messages for user2 at pop3.host1.net (11540 octets).
fetchmail: reading message user2@××××××××××.net:1 of 2 (5020 octets) 
fetchmail:  flushed
fetchmail: reading message user2@××××××××××.net:2 of 2 (6520 octets) 
fetchmail:  flushed
--
Can anyone tell me why this happened?

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