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Author: Craig White
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Subject: Fetchmail errors
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:31, Bryce C wrote:
> First off, I have had the privilege of having to become a fetchmail
> master recently and now run it every two minutes calling about 15
> accounts on 9 servers and then delivering to ~20, just to let you know
> my qualifications. Fetchmail will only say this if it cannot connect to
> the host. Make sure you can ping the hosts and also try, ,if you can
> ping them, telnet HOST 110, assuming that you're using POP3 and
> replacing HOST with the host. If this fails, then you have network
> issues on your end or possibly those hosts are down.
>

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just cuz I gotta ask

if I telnet to a pop3 server - I don't know how to disconnect. I've even
had problems with control-c. Is there a command to quit the connection
with the pop server...I know that there must be one.

Craig