On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, WebImmigration.Com wrote:

I have a problem where it is giving error code 2, and when I check, the

Can anyone help?

With a problem description like that? No.

Try running fetchmail with "-v -v" to enable verbose output including all the client server communications.

The man page defines error code 2 as

"An error was encountered when attempting to open a socket to retrieve mail. If you don't know what a socket is, don't worry about it -- just treat this as an 'unrecoverable error'. This error can also be because a protocol fetchmail wants to use is not listed in /etc/services."

While the output of -v -v above might tell you the problem right away, I'd guess there might be a typo in your config file, ie a hostname or something. It's been ages since I've ran fetchmail, but ISTR it being very straightforward.

Sean