Re: IDLE Socket error After IP reconnect

Matthias Andree via Fetchmail-users <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Nov 2025 01:35:04 +0100
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Am 01.11.25 um 23:42 schrieb Mailu via Fetchmail-users:
> Oh sorry, trying to do my best on the go with iOS mail :/
> Hope this is better even though not quoting this time anyways...
>   
> I just wanted to ask if the reason can really be the server employing short timeouts.
> Timeouts seem rather reasonable: I noticed that *exactly* every 200mins I receive the socket error (except for the additional errors in the time slots around the IP reconnect).

Hum. 200 min without receiving mail? Can you get me debug logs? See the 
fetchmail FAQ, <https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>

> I would still say that this is expected as eventually every server will disconnect on their side. Or do you mean that fetchmail should actively reconnect every 30mins by default? If so, this seems not to work for me...

It's certainly so that fetchmail has had support for a long time to deal 
with servers disconnecting anytime - that's just a nearly normal 
situation in networks.