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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Wei on September 20, 2000, 06:39:00 AM
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We keep getting -lots- of these
(once every time the e-smith box
goes looking for mail) error reports:
"fetchmail: another foreground fetchmail is running at 652."
(Rec'd, as e-mail, by admin user at a LAN workstation)
Have -we- done something to cause this?
Have we missed a bug fix?
How to correct it?
What to look for?
TIA
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Hi,
You are not typing something like /etc/fetchmail in the console window?
Guess not.
The command you see is Fetchmail (the script run to get the e-mail from the provider)
The message you state normally appears is you try to start fetchmail while another fetchmail has not yet been completed.
It seems that your e-smith is still fetching e-mail (so has not finished yet) when a new fetchmail job is started. Maybe you should try to set the e-mail retreival interval somewhat higher.
An other possiblility is to have your ISP check how much e-mail there is waiting.
It's impossible to fetch 50 Mb of mail over an ISDN line in less then an hour..
good luck,
Niels