fetchmail option

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I have a little problem with fetchmail
Its the second time in the last 3 years that fetchmail waits endless for a answer from my provider.
So i have to implement the -t function in the script fetchmail which is in /etc/init.d and was written by Stanislav Brabec.

Iam not shure howto implement -t option for timeout in this script or should i implement -t option in fetchmailrc under /etc.

I am using opensuse 10.1. (yes i wrote this in March 2010) I configured all users with yast.

Can someone tell me the best way to implement the -t option with i think 500 seconds
Thank you in advance
Norbert

2

The easiest solution seems to me to implement

timeout 500

in /etc/fetchmailrc. Make sure that the permissions on this file are at most 0700 after editing it.

3

sorry didnt work
i tried this things
first line on /etc/fetchmailrc
1.
timeout 500
2.
-t 500
3.
–t 500

all syntax error
i have more than 100 users in this pool i would not write in every line for every user timeout 500

Can you show me another way
thanks in advance Norbert

4

Versions 2. and 3. are obviously wrong. But it could be:

defaults timeout 500
5

Thanks for your help

This option seems to work well
I hope so because i didn#t have any error when i restarted the service.

Norbert Winkler
Karmel Linz