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 <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a>
 <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a>
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 <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1>
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 The solution is to either (a) wait for the other client to finish, or (b)
 terminate it.<p>
 
+James Stevens &lt;James.Stevens@kyzo.com&gt; writes:<p> 
+
+<em>
+We had a Linux box dialing the Net and collecting mail from an NT POP3
+server.  Fetchmail was correctly collecting and deleting each e-mail
+one by one. However,the dial-up connection was very unreliable and
+would often just drop out in the middle of a session.<p>
+
+Interestingly, unless the TCP POP3 connection was terminated normally
+(I guess with a POP3 "QUIT" command) NT would then roll back all the
+deletes !!!<p>
+
+This meant if the first e-mail was very large it might just end up
+continuously collecting it, basically jamming the queue. Or, if the
+queue became very full itmight never get a long enough phone
+connection to retrieve the entire mailbox, and NT would roll back any
+deletes, so it would end up collecting (and delivering) the first few
+e-mails again and again. As the POP3 mailbox became fuller and fuller
+the chances of getting a connection long enough to collect theentire
+mailbox became smaller and smaller.<p>
+
+Our solution was to make fetchmail only collect a few (say 5 or 10)
+e-mails at atime, thus trying to ensure that the POP3 connection is
+terminated correctly.
+</em>
+
+That's one solution.  Perhaps a better one would be to FORMAT C: and
+install Linux on your server...<p>
+
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 <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com">&lt;esr@snark.thyrsus.com&gt;</A></ADDRESS>