Topic: fetchmail error

[brianr]

All of a sudden I am getting "Query status=2" in the mail log everytime fetchmail runs.

I can't find any useful information on this any where on the web or in this list.

I've played with the /etc/fetchmail entries, and it appears that the mail server is contacted, but not actually polled for mail (no login seems to take place).

Any ideas anyone?

[brianr]

I seem to have got it fixed, although i cannot be sure that it wasn't something that the ISP had done (they had just changed the mailserver details, then it all went down just before I got it working).

queyr status=2 seems to be a common result from fetchmail, covering a multitude of sins, the manual says "treat as irrecoverable".

The change I made just before it started working was to change the primary DNS name of the server from "foo.com" to "local.foo.com", where the ISP mailserver was known as "mail.foo.com" (but i had got the name marked as "remote", and a ping found the external one ok).

If anyone has any comments on this I'd be glad to hear them...

cheers

Brian