Re: pop3/fetchmail problem
Frank Dreyfus <fdreyfus@nyw.com> wrote in
news:Xns9A575369DAD6Cadfslur0mdoaur03jadl@207.115.33.102:
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> My server was running fine until I restart it. Now I'm getting a
> pop3/fetchmail error and users are not getting their mail.[/color]
Hi,
The error seems to have resolved itself, at least for now.
Users are getting mail and the errors in syslog are no longer happening.
I didn't do anything to fix this!
Any idea what was wrong? Could it have been a problem at the other end
(i.e. the host that fetchmail was accessing?)
Thanks,
Frank
Re: pop3/fetchmail problem
Frank Dreyfus <fdreyfus@nyw.com> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> My server was running fine until I restart it. Now I'm getting a
> pop3/fetchmail error and users are not getting their mail.
>
> Here's a snippet from syslog:
> Mar 4 07:57:32 pti fetchmail[6260]: getaddrinfo("pop.
> <mydomain>.com","pop3") error: Name or service not known
>
> Mar 4 07:57:32 pti fetchmail[6260]: POP3 connection to pop.
> <mydomain>.com failed: Success
>
> Mar 4 07:57:32 pti fetchmail[6260]: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
>
>
> imap, imaps, ipop2, ipop3 and pop3s are all set to "start when
> requested" according to mcc/services.
>
> What's going on?[/color]
Probably temporary DNS error.
man getaddrinfo
says:
EAI_NONAME
The node or service is not known. This error is also returned
if both node and service are NULL.
Re: pop3/fetchmail problem
Frank Dreyfus wrote:
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> Frank Dreyfus <fdreyfus@nyw.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9A575369DAD6Cadfslur0mdoaur03jadl@207.115.33.102:
>[color=green]
>> My server was running fine until I restart it. Now I'm getting a
>> pop3/fetchmail error and users are not getting their mail.[/color]
>
> Hi,
>
> The error seems to have resolved itself, at least for now.
>
> Users are getting mail and the errors in syslog are no longer happening.
>
> I didn't do anything to fix this!
>
> Any idea what was wrong? Could it have been a problem at the other end
> (i.e. the host that fetchmail was accessing?)
>[/color]
You did try to ping or nslookup the pophost in question, during the outage?
Maybe it was a (un)scheduled downtime - you may find info on their website?
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Re: pop3/fetchmail problem
Frank Dreyfus wrote:
....[color=blue]
> The error seems to have resolved itself, at least for now.
>
> Users are getting mail and the errors in syslog are no longer happening.
>
> I didn't do anything to fix this!
>
> Any idea what was wrong? Could it have been a problem at the other end
> (i.e. the host that fetchmail was accessing?)[/color]
Btw., mailserver outages these days are a blessing. No spam. People actually
doing their pent-up work. No complaints (at least as long as the
trouble-ticket system is based on mail).
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