Anyone know what 512 as a return code for fetchmail means?

[David Stockwell]

Hi,

I've been playing with the python interpreter and fetchmail on a linux
system.
I created a userid and put a couple of emails out there. I've tried both
imap and pop3 but both give an answer of 512. I have also removed the
files via a normal remove on the server and then done the below and it
always returns 512.
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>>>import os
>>>cmd = 'fetchmail -c -p POP3 -s pop.duneram.com -u spam'
>>>os.system(cm d)[/color][/color][/color]
512

Thanks,


David Stockwell
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[Grant Edwards]

Re: Anyone know what 512 as a return code for fetchmail means?

On 2004-05-28, David Stockwell <winexpert@hotm ail.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> I created a userid and put a couple of emails out there. I've tried both
> imap and pop3 but both give an answer of 512. I have also removed the
> files via a normal remove on the server and then done the below and it
> always returns 512.[/color]

The exit code from the program is in the upper byte of the
value returned by os.cmd(). So the return code is 2. According
to fetchmail's man page:

The exit codes returned by fetchmail are as follows:

[...]

2 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.

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